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! Pls don't flame me :-) ! |
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Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers |
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servers. |
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A customer of mine chose SLES 10 back then to run a VMware-Server |
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installation (1.0.x back then) because they had some big |
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company-license-pool available. |
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That server is to be replaced and I asked them if they still want to use |
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SLES because of that. Answer: no ... no more licenses available/paid. |
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So they asked me for alternatives and I told them about gentoo. |
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My question: |
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how would you guys compare the 2 choices to report it back to them? |
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People buy stuff like SLES to get/feel the feeling that all the choice |
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and review of changes is done for them .... we didn't need one |
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support-call in the last few years. And the gentoo-community is a |
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helpful and competent one (yes, thank you!). |
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So I tend to do the job with gentoo ... better they pay my work than |
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some never-used support-contract ;-) |
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I just plan to use stable gentoo there, be conservative with changes and |
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keep the system up-to-date regularly ... as I use ~amd64 on my main |
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machines I think I am rather informed about any *bigger* or problematic |
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upgrades. |
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It's gonna be a QEMU/KVM-host .. this and some rather powerful server |
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should speed up those smallish and dusty VMs. |
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Any thoughts? How to professionally deploy gentoo linux as a one-man-show? |
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;-) |
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Best regards, Stefan |