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> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 17:01 +0000, Eduardo Tongson wrote: |
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>> What makes CentOS 4.1 "more" stable than gentoo care to elaborate? |
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> The beauty of running a binary based GNU/Linux distribution not |
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> particularly on CentOS alone but in general (includes Debian, Red Hat, |
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> SuSE, Mandriva, etc.) is before the updates are released to the public |
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> it has been tested and compiled for use in enterprise production use. |
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> When I say updates here it doesn't mean of a new version number of the |
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> packages. Instead, the security and bug fixes for the packages |
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> installed in the system. |
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so obviously we need to exclude operating systems like FreeBSD and OpenBSD |
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for any type of production use because they do not have binary packages? |
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> This is also the issue raised by Mr. Phillip Berry who started this |
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> thread. I for one wants to have a Gentoo system in an enterprise |
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> production use. This is not about bleeding edge, optimization, |
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> performance and control. |
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Gentoo is stable and is not bleeding edge unless you are using keywords |
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and unmasking from the stable distro. |
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> Try to think of managing 100 servers all running Gentoo on 5 to 10 |
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> different offices/companies with different services and customed |
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> applications in production use. Do you think you can still manage all |
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> of them? |
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this assumes that one could manage 100 server of any distro in this |
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manor... in fact gentoo lends itself to this environment better that most |
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linux distrobutions because of portage overlays that allow you to tag |
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specific machines for beta and production based on packages. It also |
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allow you to build multiple packages and distribute them from a single |
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source after testing. |
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By the time you get to 20 servers anyway if you are using cvs (or other) |
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to maintain config files and certain aspects of the os you are asking for |
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trouble. |
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That being said may we put this thread to rest? Gentoo is perfectly |
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capable of running in a production environment, I have personally have 15 |
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servers all running gentoo 2005.1. I also have several debian servers and |
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freebsd servers.... it is all simply a matter of comfort. you should |
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never put any system into a production environment unless your comfortable |
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admining that system... period. So lets stop the pissing contest of my |
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distro can beat up your distro and get to the real issues. |
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