Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Server Packages for Gentoo
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:05:11
Message-Id: 873ajhad3v.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Server Packages for Gentoo by BRM
1 BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > Unless my understanding is wrong...
4 >
5 > The idea of 'enterprise-level' packages with respect to Linux is more
6 > or less stable packages over a long time period.
7
8 Why? Is it not be more a matter of scalability than stability? So that,
9 for example, an enterprise level database application might need to
10 handle tables with tens of millions of rows and thousands of
11 transactions per second. Or a file or email server be able to handle
12 tens of thousands of user accounts etc.