From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 246 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 15:49:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 27081 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 15:49:26 -0000 From: jonah benton Reply-To: jonah@jonah.com To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:48:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200308281609.59305.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308281148.43744.jonah@jonah.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at origamipartners.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop X-Archives-Salt: e6034dd4-020b-4da2-a8da-845775f7d868 X-Archives-Hash: dff9709a31a2329f5eb59c3434566b90 On Thursday 28 August 2003 11:36 am, dams@idm.fr wrote: > Stuart Herbert said: > > On Thursday 28 August 2003 4:03 pm, dams@idm.fr wrote: > >> That's what makes redhat and suse so popular in corporates. It's not > >> difficult. But if badly done (rh, suse), it clutters the whole distro. > > > > Don't agree. RedHat and SuSE are popular in corporates because they go > > out and do the deals. They partner with other companies who have > > products that the corporates want. > > That too, that's right. But redhat is imho orienting their distro to meat > the corporate desktop. > As a happy gentoo user, I beg- please don't try to do this. Let someone start a business to do what's involved in building/selling/supporting a gentoo-based desktop solution in a business context. Don't take that on as part of the 501c3 organization. Jonah -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list