From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5689 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Oct 2003 08:53:12 -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 1016 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2003 08:53:12 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:53:11 +0000 From: Sven Blumenstein To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031022085311.GA15457@emu.gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo featured in "The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines" X-Archives-Salt: a99ad92b-157c-473b-9947-710cc8827d7d X-Archives-Hash: abecf92bc5d869bdbb145951f52f02b0 Hi, I just found the following paper, written by IDA ("Interchange of Data between Administrators") posted on a German newspage: http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&parent=news&documentID=1647 Its a (IMO) very good written paper about OpenSource alternatives to various subjects like for example: - Office - Mail - Calendaring and Groupware - Web Access - Document Management - Databases - Anti-Virus - Anti-Spam - VPN, DNS, Printing, LDAP, Samba as Windows PDC etc... And as mentioned in the subject of this Mail, they also mention Gentoo. Quote from Page 47 of the paper: "There are other Distributions such as Debian and Gentoo which are not prepared by a commercial organisation and this has implications for the way in which support is provided. Support for these distributions comes either from third parties or from access to mailing lists on the Internet. Both of these can provide acceptable levels of cover. Debian has a reputation for solidity and its stable section contains code which has been thoroughly tested by many people world wide. There are also two other sections providing increasing levels of leading edge software. The stable branch also has the reputation of being out of date. This is unfair to some extent because most commercial users are principally interested in stability and lack of bugs, and not whether the latest peripheral can be supported. Gentoo is a source-only distribution, which means that the Administration can build its own binaries easily, tailoring the Distribution to their environment and hardware. Building such a distribution from scratch is time consuming but once the binaries have been built they are available generally. This is a new distribution and is worth considering. Because most other Distributions are supplied with full source code, it is possible to tailor any of them the same way; Gentoo, however, may be more amenable to such treatment." By the way, those are the only two non-commercial distributions they mention :) Regards, Sven Blumenstein Gentoo Linux/Sparc -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list