Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for retirement of old gentoo 'versions'

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>]

On Sunday 04 July 2004 6:16 pm, Barry Shaw wrote:
> We've got about 250 machines currently gentooed,
> with more to come, so we might be able to offer some insights into large
> scale installations.

Very nice.   Yes, I would love to know more about how you're using Gentoo 
commercially.

In the past, I've done some production installs of FreeBSD with success, 
but not w/Linux yet.   A Gentoo deployment should be more controllable, in 
my estimation, than FreeBSD, but there's a lot of work to be done on both 
to make them more sane for commercial environments.  IMO, the first 
priority is just minimizing the rate/amt of change.  That's half the 
battle.   IT folks can't be burdened with the minutae of researching & 
testing lots of tiny little package updates.  

The "don't rsync" solution is a kludge... we need something a tad more 
thoughtful, functional than that.  :-)

If you don't mind my asking, how many of your Gentoo machines are 
workstations?  Servers?  What kind of work is done on these machines?

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org]
Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F

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