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Affordability of QA

Affordability of QA

Posted Aug 14, 2003 14:57 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813)
Parent article: Bitten by old bugs

Unfortunately most distributions do not have the resources to run full QA on the latest version of all software packages every time a new version of the software is released. As any seasoned SysAdmin will tell you, stability comes first. Upgrade for the sake of upgrade is generally not a good approach. Of course, companies like Microsoft or Sun would have you upgrade every time they manage to make their binaries 50% larger.


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