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My $.02 after reading a lot of discussions on the CentOS (ie free |
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REHL4) list is this: |
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1. Many Enterprise users are looking for an SLA, ie someone who will |
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guarantee to fix anything that breaks in a specified period of time. |
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Such users have the big bucks to pay for such a guarantee. I'm sure |
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that Gentoo will not be in a position to provide this, but some |
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enterprising group might want to undertake this. |
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2. Enterprise users (as a general rule) are not interested in the |
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latest and greatest but rather in a stable, reasonably current system |
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that can remain in place (with guaranteed security fixes, of course) |
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with no "feature creep" for a few years. Even Gentoo stable is too |
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much of a moving target for such users. The user base (engineers |
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developing embedded Linux) I support is still well served by RH9 for |
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the most part! |
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Not to say that Gentoo has no place in a production environment, but |
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my company would never use anything without an SLA, ie not even CentOS |
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which mirrors REHL faithfully. |
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Collins |
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Head teachers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but |
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the Start button. |
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