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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 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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You as the administrator have nearly 6000 packages for the administrator |
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to pick from (with most packages that you might want in a various type |
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of server), and if the package isn't present, the .ebuild syntax is |
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incredibly easy to learn. |
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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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Regards, |
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-Lisa |
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