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Hi, |
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I just found the following paper, written by IDA ("Interchange of Data |
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between Administrators") posted on a German newspage: |
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http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&parent=news&documentID=1647 |
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Its a (IMO) very good written paper about OpenSource alternatives to various |
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subjects like for example: |
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- Office |
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- Mail |
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- Calendaring and Groupware |
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- Web Access |
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- Document Management |
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- Databases |
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- Anti-Virus |
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- Anti-Spam |
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- VPN, DNS, Printing, LDAP, Samba as Windows PDC etc... |
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And as mentioned in the subject of this Mail, they also mention Gentoo. |
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Quote from Page 47 of the paper: |
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"There are other Distributions such as Debian and Gentoo which are not prepared |
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by a commercial organisation and this has implications for the way in which |
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support is provided. |
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Support for these distributions comes either from third parties or from access |
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to mailing lists on the Internet. Both of these can provide acceptable levels |
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of cover. |
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Debian has a reputation for solidity and its stable section contains code which |
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has been thoroughly tested by many people world wide. There are also two other |
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sections providing increasing levels of leading edge software. The stable branch |
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also has the reputation of being out of date. This is unfair to some extent |
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because most commercial users are principally interested in stability and lack |
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of bugs, and not whether the latest peripheral can be supported. |
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Gentoo is a source-only distribution, which means that the Administration can |
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build its own binaries easily, tailoring the Distribution to their environment |
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and hardware. Building such a distribution from scratch is time consuming but |
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once the binaries have been built they are available generally. This is a new |
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distribution and is worth considering. Because most other Distributions are |
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supplied with full source code, it is possible to tailor any of them the same way; |
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Gentoo, however, may be more amenable to such treatment." |
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By the way, those are the only two non-commercial distributions they mention :) |
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Regards, |
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Sven Blumenstein |
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Gentoo Linux/Sparc |
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