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On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 21:51 -0700, Greg KH wrote: |
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> One thing that people might want to remember, if Gentoo ever changes |
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> into a "real, we take your money for support" type of distro, a lot of |
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> the employers of the us developers might reconsider allowing them to |
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> participate. Which would pretty much suck... |
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Oh, I'd never want to see Gentoo become like that! But that doesn't mean |
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we can attempt to make a sub-project to make things at least better for |
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the enterprise folks. Whether that be creating tools to help management |
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multiple Gentoo machines, or dealing with a more 'stable' branch. I'm |
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not saying we'll ever achieve a level of where RHEL is, but we can at |
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least make it more manageable for folks. I know that won't help |
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companies that require a service agreement since we as Gentoo will never |
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be able to do that. |
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I get the sense that when people hear 'enterprise' they think we want to |
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take Gentoo to becoming a corporate monster like RH. I pray and hope |
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that never happens. All I'd like to see is a sub-project devoted to |
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Gentoo in the enterprise. It'd sit in a similar role as Hardened Gentoo |
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does providing tools, etc for folks in the enterprise. |
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Let the people who want to use Gentoo as a 'hobbist' distro use it like |
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that, and let the people that want to use it in the enterprise use it as |
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that. |
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Btw, I'm hoping to get this said sub-project going once I get settled in |
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with my move and new job. At least get some organization sorted with it. |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager |
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