From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32091 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Dec 2003 14:10:44 -0600 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 24552 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 14:10:44 -0600 From: Brett Simpson To: Gentoo Dev Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:10:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1070653863.12159.49.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> In-Reply-To: <1070653863.12159.49.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312051510.36537.simpsonb@hillsboroughcounty.org> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers. X-Archives-Salt: 227e36b1-577d-4e78-9490-02f6dca2983a X-Archives-Hash: 1837bde3ff7cfd3e2d4e236ba9c1ae8d On Friday 05 December 2003 02:51 pm, Lisa Seelye wrote: > 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. > > 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. So then the statement "makes Gentoo Linux a questionable choice for production server environments" no longer applies? Also has a company/business been formed around Gentoo? We are using Gentoo in a production server environment but recently management has been asking questions mostly because Gartner only recommends SuSE or Redhat Enterprise Linux. Thanks, Brett -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list