[TriLUG] iptables & FUD

[John Vaughters]

I see I am not the only Grandpa in the making `,~>
 
I completely agree that perfectly good SW can hose your system, which is why I continue to use Centos for production servers. I still have some on 5.x, waiting for the end of life. 
 
Sometimes I get annoyed becasue Centos does not have some of the newer features, but for the most part the admin is much less than constantly upgrading. The tried and true apps do not need the flashy new features.
 
I got nailed on udev rules once too, probably the same time you did, I just don't remember now.


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From: William Sutton <william at trilug.org>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org> 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] iptables & FUD


vim +1

that said, I'm sick of people changing (and/or deprecating) perfectly 
functional software just because they don't think it's "pretty" enough, or 
is organized the way they would do it.  See, in addition to the below 
example, the udev-197 changes, which completely hosed my PC for a week.

Yes, I get that sometimes things are obsolete, or the maintainer closed 
the source, or Oracle bought yet another tool, or (etc., etc., etc.).  But 
some things I just don't get.

William Sutton