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BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> IT maintenance burden stifles innovation
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Keeping systems up and running is holding back European IT managers
>> | from contributing to business improvement as much as they could.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/19/it_stifile_innovation/
>>
>> I suppose we all know what software requires reboots, reinstallation
>> (wipe), cleaning up of infections, tidying up Registries, protective
>> software, defragging, FAT recoveries, care for performance and upgrades...
>>
>
> Yes but saying that you would be surprised how many users of Linux I have to
> tell off (in forums and chat) because they have a problem and go straight
> for the reinstall approach of the whole system.
I wouldn't be surprised at all. Pretty much everyone I've introduced to
linux has had to be taught the same thing, that re-installing linux in
99.999% of cases will avail you naught, however, you can do real
fault-finding and really fix problems. This, however, is a double-edged
sword; for those people talented enough to track down and fix problems,
this is a real boon, for those people who lack the talent, it's a real
problem, because they can *no longer blame the system*. A talentless
MCSE will go through:
1. reboot
2. reinstall app
3. reinstall windows
4. buy new PC
Whereas a talented admin on a linux system doesn't even do 1. above,
because he knows it will avail him naught (in almost all cases!). I
appreciate that there are times when reboots and reinstallations might
be appropriate, but these would be truly exceptional cases.
>
> The distros install/uninstall for problems apps are generally very good
> these days, even if they do have to go commando, oops I mean, on the
> command line, apt-get and rpm are both really easy to follow if all you
> want to do in uninstall or install something.
>
> I try over and over to tell people that you only need install Linux once
> unless
> a] you need to replace the system hard drive
> b] move to another pewter
> c] Change distro or major upgrade.
>
> Absolutely everything else can be repaired or put right from inside Linux.
>
> I had that IT man not so long ago, I might have mentioned in here before,
> who did that on a saturday morning believing that he could solve a growing
> bad sectors problem on the system drive with a reinstall. He only got me in
> because he couldn't manage to pull back his user stuff from the backups.
> That was only a problem of him not having the right driver for a dat drive
> loaded. But a detailed check of his hard drive showed that he was on to a
> loser anyway. When linux drive tools doesn't like the drive then you never
> attempt to repair it, you get what you need off it then sling it out, you
> will not get better tools than you get on your Linux.
>
> I've never seen him in a bad mood before but he was getting very red and
> flustered while I lectured and told him off for his poor approach to the
> symptoms that he had. Some people just can't take a telling off he hasn't
> spoken to me since.
>
Obviously you embarrassed him too much.
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