Keith's Law of System Updates

Well, wouldn't you know it, our performance report was almost finished and I decided to run a system update: $ sudo yum update. Of course, I should have listened to Keith's advice on the matter.

Keith's Law of System Updates: Don't be the first to update your system when new software becomes available.

So I ended up hosing my system 3 hours before we were due in a meeting with the business. Luckily, there's a few spare machines at work, so all was not lost. I'm now thinking that the move to a more supported (by our sysadmins as well as RedHat) distribution of Linux won't be that bad after all.