Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

[Shawn Singh]

>>> Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but soon we could be
forced to uses for everybody only one system.

Sounds like a cool organization. :)

As far as considering FreeBSD, it's a great OS; however, I'd describe it as
more as an alternative to using Linux. This is certainly evident in their
philosophy. I'd narrow it to Linux / FreeBSD, and if you went Linux, I'd go
with Gentoo.

Please see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/

As far as Redhat or Gentoo are concerned, they are both great distros;
however, I can't think of an advantage that Redhat has over Gentoo. In a
company where the users are Linux savvy, I'd go with Gentoo for flexibility
and configurability.

I'm not sure how RH is handling dependency hell these days, but I can say
that the team that deals with software that is available to Portage, does an
unbelievable job of providing Portage with what it will need to make
software maintenance trivial.

At this point, I'm not sure if RH has a LiveCd. I see that FC released on a
little over 1 mo ago, but I've not tried it. The Gentoo LiveCd is a stable
solution that you can boot up, try out, and if you like, install. The
packages that are available for Gentoo, while they may not necessarily be
the, "bleeding edge, while the animal is still twitching on the ground
version" will be a stable version. I'd get into the strengths / merits of
Portage, but I think using it is worthwhile to see Portage at work, but I
will say that Portage is a complete package management solution, and for the
developer, one can appreciate really the versioning that one can do using
Portage.

Later,

Shawn
On 1/19/07, Andrey Gerasimenko <gak@××××××.ru> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:37:27 +0300, qfpvajdy <qfpvajdy@×××××××××.net>
> wrote:
>
> > ....
> > I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo
> > GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one
> > day also for servers).
> > Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but soon we could be
> > forced to uses for everybody only one system.
>
> Any anticipated forced action indicates that there is a problem. Identify
> the problem and show how Gentoo helps to solve it. Since you do not write
> about the problem, you should not expect much from the answers, all being
> based on some guess and/or assumption.
>
> For example, since Gentoo is a meta distribution, it may allow everybody
> to continue to use Linux their own way and still keep the management happy
> thinking that all are using the same thing.
>
> > I must probably convince the people to use Gentoo Linux against RedHat
> > Scientific Linux and FreeBSD.
> >
>
> If the choice is between Red Hat Scientific and FreeBSD, you (as an
> organization) clearly do not know what you need. Thus, Gentoo may be the
> least risky option since if you ever find out that you need a BSD or even
> a Solaris kernel, then you can switch to it easier from Gentoo than from
> Red Hat.
>
> > Does somebody has some good key arguments?
> >
> > The mines are:
> > - newests packages with newests security updates, encryption support and
> > full integreated KDE desktop to be used in office without problems
> > - high performance desktop
> > ....
>
> These arguments proof that Gentoo may be used, not that is should be used.
>
> --
> Andrei Gerasimenko
> --
> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
>
>


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