I agree completely with the sentiments expressed, although I might have phrased it differently...:-)
The Mandrake distro began by filling a gaping hole created by RedHat and gave the users what they wanted. Since that time, it has grown and improved. If the users didn't want what they produced, it would have died on the vine a long time ago. It grew because users wanted what Mandrake had to offer. This is true for all Linux distributions.
If you were a paying customer of Red Hat support, syou didn't miss a single minute of support.
Can you say duhhhh? Can you say luser? what is it with all of these stupid responses without a clue?
Think about it for a minute. You are moving a server that has a huge number of hits for both the Red Hat and gnome domains. The hardware that has been handling these hits is not tiny. When you propose thowing up your old Pentium 90 to stand in for this server, do you even have a clue how many hits it handles?
Red Hat did the honest thing for this communn\\\ity. They told us that they would be down while moving. That is Enough for me. I have moved an entire data center / server room and it was not a simple matter. In fact it took planning for months in advance to avoid downtime, yet there was downtime. We are talking six months of advance planning... but still there was downtime.
Ummm, yup, this is pretty easy to do, except if you expect to get hammered with hits as soon as the temporary server is put online. Since that server would be handling all hits for redhat.com, gnorme.org, rhad.org, and the related ftp sites, the temp server would get hammered to a degree that would bring almost all systems to their kneees.
I've been in this situation, and agree that it is better to suck it up and take a couple of days of complaints than to attempt an interim fix that is likely to create more problems than it solves.
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I agree completely with the sentiments expressed, although I might have phrased it differently... :-)
The Mandrake distro began by filling a gaping hole created by RedHat and gave the users what they wanted. Since that time, it has grown and improved. If the users didn't want what they produced, it would have died on the vine a long time ago. It grew because users wanted what Mandrake had to offer. This is true for all Linux distributions.
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If you were a paying customer of Red Hat support, syou didn't miss a single minute of support.
Can you say duhhhh? Can you say luser? what is it with all of these stupid responses without a clue?
Think about it for a minute. You are moving a server that has a huge number of hits for both the Red Hat and gnome domains. The hardware that has been handling these hits is not tiny. When you propose thowing up your old Pentium 90 to stand in for this server, do you even have a clue how many hits it handles?
Red Hat did the honest thing for this communn\\\ity. They told us that they would be down while moving. That is Enough for me. I have moved an entire data center / server room and it was not a simple matter. In fact it took planning for months in advance to avoid downtime, yet there was downtime. We are talking six months of advance planning... but still there was downtime.
Ummm, yup, this is pretty easy to do, except if you expect to get hammered with hits as soon as the temporary server is put online. Since that server would be handling all hits for redhat.com, gnorme.org, rhad.org, and the related ftp sites, the temp server would get hammered to a degree that would bring almost all systems to their kneees.
I've been in this situation, and agree that it is better to suck it up and take a couple of days of complaints than to attempt an interim fix that is likely to create more problems than it solves.
Cudos to Red Hat for recognizing this.