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On Friday 05 December 2003 02:51 pm, Lisa Seelye wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:38, Brett Simpson wrote: |
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> > Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is this for the |
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> > current 1.4 release in a production server environment? |
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> Gentoo is flexible enough to be placed in just about any type of |
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> environment. As we move closer and closer to Portage-ng the |
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> administrator of a production server will only gain more control over |
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> the Gentoo machines he or she maintains. |
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> With the control over the dependency tree and portage tree that Gentoo |
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> affords its users there is no good reason to not consider Gentoo for any |
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> type of machine - production or otherwise. |
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So then the statement "makes Gentoo Linux a questionable choice for production |
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server environments" no longer applies? |
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Also has a company/business been formed around Gentoo? |
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We are using Gentoo in a production server environment but recently management |
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has been asking questions mostly because Gartner only recommends SuSE or |
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Redhat Enterprise Linux. |
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Thanks, |
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Brett |
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