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On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 15:59 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:10:35 +1000 |
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> "Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wraeth@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On 28 July 2017 8:44:20 PM AEST, "Andreas K. Huettel" |
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> > <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > That's not feasible. It would kill off any semi-professional or |
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> > > professional |
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> > > Gentoo use, where a minimum of stability is required. |
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> > > |
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> > > (Try keeping ~10 machines on stable running without automation. |
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> > > That's already |
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> > > quite some work. Now try the same with ~arch. Now imagine you're |
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> > > talking about |
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> > > 100 or 1000 machines.) |
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> > |
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> > And further, try proposing that to management - that you'll be |
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> > managing hosts on a platform that has no "stable" to speak of. |
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> The professional/management argument is silly. Most avoid Gentoo. |
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> Most companies, want to be able to pay for support. Not to mention |
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> certifications and such for those they hire. None of which Gentoo has |
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> regardless of stability. Not to mention reputation... |
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> Those that tend to run Gentoo have their own interest in such. I |
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> have |
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> seen many migrate from rather than to Gentoo. Large companies, who's |
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> names we would all know. One of the few left is Meetup.com. They run |
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> Gentoo as do some others. Seems Tivo does stuff with Gentoo, Google, |
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> Sony, etc. Some tend to hire Gentoo devs... |
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Seriously, can you please stop your diatribes. I am so absolutely fed |
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up by your DoS'ing of the ML with your pointless points. |
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