Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

[Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:38, Brett Simpson wrote:
> Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is this for the current 1.4 release in a production server environment?

Gentoo is flexible enough to be placed in just about any type of
environment.  As we move closer and closer to Portage-ng the
administrator of a production server will only gain more control over
the Gentoo machines he or she maintains.

You as the administrator have nearly 6000 packages for the administrator
to pick from (with most packages that you might want in a various type
of server), and if the package isn't present, the .ebuild syntax is
incredibly easy to learn.

With the control over the dependency tree and portage tree that Gentoo
affords its users there is no good reason to not consider Gentoo for any
type of machine - production or otherwise.


-- 
Regards,
-Lisa
<Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior>

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