The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Shane Stixrud]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Basically, the problem arises in trying to move the inertia of 50 upstream
> applications to move to a "new, better" format versus the pain of
> trying to consistently maintain such patches for 50 applications outside
> of upstream.

I understand that.  So the equation seems to be is the effort worth the 
long term benefits?  I can tell you from the meetings and hall way 
conversations I have been involved in, this issue is a large part of 
the equation when an enterprise is comparing Windows vs Linux for x86 
desktop and server deployments.  It is not the command line that turns 
Netware / Windows administrators off (even if they think it is) it is the 
lack of consistency and thus the increased complexity involved in 
configuration the system.

Shane