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Originally posted by DeadKenny
Or rather MS spends a huge amount of time and money regression testing so their fixes are not going to break systems and cost people a lot of money, whereas on linux they fix it and then fix those bugs, then fix those bugs, and you have to wait until someone comes up with a decent fix or you fix it yourself (that's the problem of open source, it's a "do it yourself or wait, test in production" strategy).
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Oh come on, how many patches have been recalled for any one linux distro? How many patches crash the server?
I only recall one patch for SuSE 7.3 that had tro be recalled, infact I'm so confident of SuSE doing a good job that all my servers are set to automatically update. Something I would never dream of doing on one of the few remaining NT boxes. MS couldn't care less if one of their patches broke your system for a few hours, after all you cant sue them thanks to the EULA, whereas the open source community cannot dare take that attitude, and quite frankly wouldn't as they take pride in their work.
Sure one or two projects may ignore a bug report, currently there is one in gnomecanvas thats been there for 8 months giving me a headache. People are working on it but it'll take time to come through and in the meantime I can figure out a workaround. While I was writing M$ based apps, I came across quite a few bugs and was faced by a wall of silence by microsoft. They dont care, and they dont need to care, hence part of the reason for the growth of Linux.
Prehaps you should consider changing your distro, after all RH can only handle about 20-30 users at once
Regards,
Ben