Well, the other option is to not be cheap, and pay the very reasonable
fee for the commercial version of Redhat.
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:58, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 09:11 3/18/2004, you wrote:
>
> >If you are using FC as an _important_ corporate machine under
> >heavy load [...] it's nice to use {RPM,APT,YUM} but if you are going
> >to stress test, tweak and/or are paranoid you can only trust:
> >
> >./configure && make && su -c "make install"
>
> You may choose to live that way... I do not.
>
> The single biggest reason why I use Red Hat Linux, RHEL, and Fedora is that
> I trusted RH to provide me with timely and well-built packages such that I
> would never have to rebuild vanilla code again. I now trust RH to spend the
> time, money, and effort in creating a community-based system to make sure
> the same happens for Fedora.
>
> If it were all "configure, make, make install" I would not be using Linux
> at all. I do finance and real estate... someone else builds operating
> systems and packages. No reason we should duplicate each other's work.
>
>
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> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.simpaticus.com
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