From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j572k9w0001615 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 02:46:10 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so2574145wra for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:46:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pAW0VYXVFk7NyoGKptYbIOQAq1aGAtC/aWR5mIPUrGJGEB43o18y1BtoIzEpujChZKCEzSaufJ43unJIpiFpr98wnDoN9FWQXOHrMWzYJt5tzPBWTCP5uksyJEmmG3K8RPzPRlfknw317Yd2LCaFYTSoPNSb8K/yB7/6M/2NFdE= Received: by 10.54.34.16 with SMTP id h16mr3681033wrh; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.54.55 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:45:52 -0600 From: Collins Richey To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo? In-Reply-To: <1118110711.7562.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050606235550.GL9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <1118110711.7562.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j572k9w0001615 X-Archives-Salt: 3e310441-cb6e-4fb4-a1b0-59deda583f9d X-Archives-Hash: 07b511f86baed0b3b8f230391a2f8c00 My $.02 after reading a lot of discussions on the CentOS (ie free REHL4) list is this: 1. Many Enterprise users are looking for an SLA, ie someone who will guarantee to fix anything that breaks in a specified period of time. Such users have the big bucks to pay for such a guarantee. I'm sure that Gentoo will not be in a position to provide this, but some enterprising group might want to undertake this. 2. Enterprise users (as a general rule) are not interested in the latest and greatest but rather in a stable, reasonably current system that can remain in place (with guaranteed security fixes, of course) with no "feature creep" for a few years. Even Gentoo stable is too much of a moving target for such users. The user base (engineers developing embedded Linux) I support is still well served by RH9 for the most part! Not to say that Gentoo has no place in a production environment, but my company would never use anything without an SLA, ie not even CentOS which mirrors REHL faithfully. -- Collins Head teachers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but the Start button. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list