Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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Linux is really just getting boring. I mean how many times can companies or organizations release the same damn thing. Every version of redhat that's come out since 8 (including fedora) is the same thing. They all look the same, have many of the same quirks (in that there is always something that doesn't work correctly, thus leaves it completely unusable).
Release cylces are just way to short in the linux world. I used to get excited everytime new distro releases would come around, not any longer. I now have XP on my computer because I finally got sick of loading a new OS on it every month.
Seriously just stop releasing this crap, it's all the same. Each version that's released isn't that much better that it deservers a whole new version. Just release a service pack like Microsoft and apple do. No one should have release cycles any shorter than a year. We've seen a lot of compaitibilty problems because of short release cycles.
How is someone supposed to administer a dependable system these days when all people care about is releasing a new verison, and dropping support for the old one as quickly as possible?
To the other extreme you have Debian, their 'stable' release is almost becoming unusable even on a server platform. Why can't a company release every 1 - 1.5 years? Is that too much to ask? Give us a system, let us get it installed, and then support it for a while. Is that such a novel idea? I mean it seems like by the time I would get around to installing the "new" distro another one would come out, and then I'd feel obliged to install that one, despite the fact it's the exact same damn thing, except it has new version of glibc, gcc, and linux, so it runs .00002% faster. Enough already!