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