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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:20:24
Message-Id: 52001700.5070401@xunil.at
1 ! Pls don't flame me :-) !
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3 Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers
4 servers.
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6 A customer of mine chose SLES 10 back then to run a VMware-Server
7 installation (1.0.x back then) because they had some big
8 company-license-pool available.
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10 That server is to be replaced and I asked them if they still want to use
11 SLES because of that. Answer: no ... no more licenses available/paid.
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13 So they asked me for alternatives and I told them about gentoo.
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15 My question:
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17 how would you guys compare the 2 choices to report it back to them?
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19 People buy stuff like SLES to get/feel the feeling that all the choice
20 and review of changes is done for them .... we didn't need one
21 support-call in the last few years. And the gentoo-community is a
22 helpful and competent one (yes, thank you!).
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24 So I tend to do the job with gentoo ... better they pay my work than
25 some never-used support-contract ;-)
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27 I just plan to use stable gentoo there, be conservative with changes and
28 keep the system up-to-date regularly ... as I use ~amd64 on my main
29 machines I think I am rather informed about any *bigger* or problematic
30 upgrades.
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32 It's gonna be a QEMU/KVM-host .. this and some rather powerful server
33 should speed up those smallish and dusty VMs.
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35 Any thoughts? How to professionally deploy gentoo linux as a one-man-show?
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37 ;-)
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39 Best regards, Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>