Caitlyn Martin's review of Slack 13

On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:07:02 -0400, Just A. User <me DeleteThis @some.fake.isp> wrote:

> When do you want an unstable system that doesn't work well, lets you down
> and requires hours of your time to work? Inquiring minds want to know...

Sometimes it is worth it to take a hit to efficiency of configuration and
maintenance, as well as overall system stability, in order to gain in some
other area. Short term rapid deployment in pre-configured places where the
work has already been done in another distro, for instance. Or if you need
to sell a solution that requires a large company base and full-time
support teams around it. Or, in my case, I may want to squeeze out every
last drop of performace at the cost of stability to run one specific
application for a specific task on a project. I've done this with things
like 3-D Graphics Workstations.

Aaron W. Hsu

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