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On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 03:59:36PM -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 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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Wouldn't it make more sense to make Gentoo *more* attractive to run in |
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corporate environments, rather than simply saying "We're not RHEL so why |
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bother"? |
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People do use Gentoo in production environments, both personally and |
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professionally, even if it is those that have more investment in doing |
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so than the average IT Joe. By removing stable, we would be reducing the |
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potential arguments for the few who do want to use Gentoo in that sort |
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of environment. We would be becoming more of a niche distro. |
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"Hey, lets try Gentoo - it's really configurable." |
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"What's their stable policy? How often does it break?" |
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"Stable? What's that?" |
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Sam Jorna (wraeth) |
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