[geeks] Article: Sun's not so cheap trick doesn't work

[Jonathan Groll]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:30:03PM -0400, Alois Hammer wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:14:40 -0400, "Phil Stracchino"
><alaric at metrocast.net> said:
>> 
>> I find myself unable to recommend RHEL to anyone.  Red Hat has a history
>> of ignoring their engineers and making boneheaded decisions that break
>> functionality or create more problems than they solve.  (Three examples
>> off the top of my head:  blind rpm evangelism; gcc 2.96; Red Hat's
>> broken gnutls library.)
>
>I suspect that, if I'd actually used it yet, I'd recommend Ubuntu
>Server.  But I haven't.  (Time for a new VM!)

At least with Debian the system can be smoothly dist-upgraded from one
long term release to another, Ubuntu still needs some work in this
regard.

Cheers,
Jonathan