I agree with that. What enterprise environment wants is quick patching
and a quick rollback (in case of failure). Nobody asks you how good is
or how much you like your OS - system just has to work - that's all.
FreeBSD itself *is* very robust OS but not having this properties it is
still limited to be widely accepted in large production environments.
j.
Ivan Voras wrote:
> Tobias Roth wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:09:53PM +0200, jere wrote:
>
>> And you cannot expect the port maintainers
>> to backport security fixes if the upstream provider chose to release the
>> fix only together with a new version.
>
> Yes you can, ask these guys: http://www.debian.org/. It's just a matter
> of policy.
>
> I dislike the long cycles between version updates in Debian but must
> admit that the "stable" distributions indeed justify their name,
> INCLUDING packages.
>
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