Another slip in the FC6 schedule

[Thomas Cameron]

Alfredo Ferrari wrote:
> ... indeed we have RHEL on the master member of the cluster and our web 
> server, but it would be unpractical to pay a license for each slave, or
> for each personal dekstop / laptop in the group.

Are you kidding me?  Are you seriously saying that your data is not 
worth $79/node - list?  Have a look at:

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/hpc/

If your cluster is not worth $79 per node, why are you bitching so loud? 
  If you are a sysadmin on a production environment, you need to set up 
an environment that looks something like:

Dev -> QA -> Production

You need to roll updates into Dev and pound the Hell out of them with 
your specific workload.  Then you roll those changes into QA and have 
your users do the same thing.  Finally, after user acceptance, *then* 
you roll into Production.

If you bypass Dev and QA, I'm afraid I can't really be too terribly 
sympathetic.

Thomas