| |||||||||||||
Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution?Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution?Posted Oct 9, 2003 14:40 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)In reply to: free "enterprise" Linux distro by tomsi Parent article: An Evening with Bruce Perens
I can see how you'd want a gee-whiz installer if you were a home user, or a business owner wanting to do the work yourself. But if this is really meant to be an ``Enterprise'' (as in at least hundreds of desktops plus the servers needed to support them and the corporate workload), I'd expect the support staff to be perfectly comfortable with debconf. Set up a server, a firewall, and a desktop, and clone as needed. Once that's complete, apt-get should lower the maintenance level to well below that needed by RPMs. And if I were running a corporate server, I'd be perfectly happy with `stable', 'cause it sure is, and that's what I'd want. If an `unstable' package is the only one meeting a requirement, then install it, but if the servers run smoothly and do what's asked of them, what do I care what level they're running at? Certification (especially Oracle and their ilk) is another question, but if they certified against `stable' we have yet another reason to stay put until necessity calls.
(Log in to post comments)
Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution? Posted Oct 9, 2003 17:57 UTC (Thu) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link] I can understand that large organizations can cope with debconf; but there are other markeds for an Enterprise level servers, eg. the SOHO market. Those markets needs an easy to use installer with sensible package choices.I have never used apt-get myself, but I must agree that it sounds like a good choice for the day-to-day maintenance needs. I think that one of the reasons that Oracle et.al. don't certifiy against "stable" is that it is too conservative (IMHO).
Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution? Posted Oct 11, 2003 17:45 UTC (Sat) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link] Oracle doesn't certify against stable because to have Oracle certify you, they need support staff from your company in their call centers. You, the OS vendor, have to pay for this. Even if Debian had the money, it would be a violation of the Social Contract to spend it on overpriced support staff for a proprietary company.
|
|||||||||||||