[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Kevin Hulse]

Quoting Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com>:

> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 15:24 -0500, Zac Brown wrote:
> > I would consider any distro based off of RHEL to be well tested (CentOS,
> > cAos, Tao Linux, Whitebox) and I'd probably say thats about it as far as
> > _well tested_ goes IMHO.
>
> Hello,
> Don't take this as a shot or a flame or anything like that. When you say
> well tested, I think of Quality Assurance -- testing the product
> specifications created at the beginning of the project against the
> finished product. In strictly trade terms that's what people mean when
> they say "well tested".
>
> In an open source context, the testing is done in the field. Red Hat

     That's the only testing that really matters in the end. This is why
the more conservative companies tend to ease off on OS and application
upgrades. They wait for more aggressive companies in the market to do the
final product testing.

     Allegedly "well tested" releases have been disasterous on occasions.

[deletia]

     However. In the end you need to do your own rigorous testing. Many
apps are complex enough that they may not exhibit certain problems until
they are exposed to (your) end user data.

-- 
...as if the ability to run Cubase ever made or broke a platform.
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