From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j575JPnN018287 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 05:19:25 GMT Received: from 12.40.38.74.ruralwirelessinternet.com ([12.40.38.74] helo=mirage.ramereth.lan) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DfWVA-0007CP-TW for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:19:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo? From: Lance Albertson To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050607045133.GA17426@kroah.com> References: <20050606235550.GL9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <20050607045133.GA17426@kroah.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7fnPmveQZCEsuFYl2sfn" Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:19:48 -0500 Message-Id: <1118121588.9284.11.camel@mirage.ramereth.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: f814e0f1-2f18-40c0-a8f4-09ba9f96fdb6 X-Archives-Hash: 87bc1298ada88ab95eddcddab51e1c55 --=-7fnPmveQZCEsuFYl2sfn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 21:51 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > One thing that people might want to remember, if Gentoo ever changes > into a "real, we take your money for support" type of distro, a lot of > the employers of the us developers might reconsider allowing them to > participate. Which would pretty much suck... Oh, I'd never want to see Gentoo become like that! But that doesn't mean we can attempt to make a sub-project to make things at least better for the enterprise folks. Whether that be creating tools to help management multiple Gentoo machines, or dealing with a more 'stable' branch. I'm not saying we'll ever achieve a level of where RHEL is, but we can at least make it more manageable for folks. I know that won't help companies that require a service agreement since we as Gentoo will never be able to do that. I get the sense that when people hear 'enterprise' they think we want to take Gentoo to becoming a corporate monster like RH. I pray and hope that never happens. All I'd like to see is a sub-project devoted to Gentoo in the enterprise. It'd sit in a similar role as Hardened Gentoo does providing tools, etc for folks in the enterprise.=20 Let the people who want to use Gentoo as a 'hobbist' distro use it like that, and let the people that want to use it in the enterprise use it as that. Btw, I'm hoping to get this said sub-project going once I get settled in with my move and new job. At least get some organization sorted with it. --=20 Lance Albertson Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- Public GPG key: Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net --=-7fnPmveQZCEsuFYl2sfn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCpS5zQW+hXSf0t0IRAinoAJ9O93heylxPVJVEPSCF3a8IsKhYEwCeOHs/ lHG1i8gykCqewJw0dU+cKEE= =oRYZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7fnPmveQZCEsuFYl2sfn-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list