Ubuntu is now worried about profits

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Manish Sinha wrote:
> On 4/25/2010 5:13 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>> Now if they can just bring the quality up to par as per the level of
>> testing that RHEL gets...oh wait, this is a 'community' OS. Good luck
>> Canonical. If I won't touch Fedora with a ten foot pole for servers
>> unless I have certain infrastructure in place to take some of the pain
>> away, I won't touch Ubuntu either even if it has the advantage of an
>> image-update that actually works and anaconda is way more flexible than
>> debian-installer at this moment. No, do not even talk about Ubuntu
>> installer.
>>    
> 
> The simplicity of Ubuntu installer is the + point for this distro.
> When I am trying to install a distro, I don't want to be asked whether I 
> want to install SSH Daemon, then in next slide if I want to install LAMP 
> stack and this keeps on going until I get fed up.

Oh, I forgot, nobody on the Linux side, not even Canonical, is going to 
try to take aim at the corporate desktop. Please do forgive me my pet 
peeve. You want simplicity? Try OpenSolaris. It does not even ask 
whether you want uber binary drivers from Nvidia. Same old GNOME desktop 
too.


> 
> Esp for servers, you need a bare-bone setup and then install packages as 
> per your requirements.

Have you ever managed a cluster of servers and had to be prepared to 
have them upgraded every six months ready to run the exact same 
configuration without regressions?


> 
> I know lack of customization can be a negative point for some people, 
> but it is not a step backward.
> 

Since when did I ever mention customization? Do you even know what I am 
talking about?