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

[Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:38:15PM -0500, Brett Simpson wrote:
> This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews article.
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
> 
> "Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro. It makes Gentoo
> Linux the ideal distribution for hobbyists who get lots of cool toys before
> everyone else, but makes Gentoo Linux a questionable choice for production
> server environments,"
[..]
> 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 Portage is already in use for production environments. It is not
Gentoo by itself, but nevertheless an important item.

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/11/06/0254253.shtml

The reason I mention this here is because the use of Gentoo in production
server environments is restricted to the ability of the system administrator
to clearly define what he needs and doesn't need for his servers.

Portage is flexible enough to fit in almost every situation, and therefor
Gentoo is flexible enough too.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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