From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27954 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Dec 2003 13:38:27 -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 32683 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 13:38:27 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.6.1 Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:38:15 -0500 From: "Brett Simpson" To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers. X-Archives-Salt: 2e76948f-1e96-4a0b-b804-c040445f77a6 X-Archives-Hash: 374a580fb013197d4f730b8198657e16 This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews article. http://www.osn= ews.com/story.php?news_id=3D1080 "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," "We're going to take pieces of the current "bleeding-edge" Gentoo Linux = meta-distribution, refined them and use them as the basis for a robust, = well-maintained version of Gentoo Linux -- geared exclusively for servers. = For this project, we will reduce the number of ebuilds in our server = branch from 1800 to around 400, at least initially. Our stable CVS tree = will be completely separate from our current bleeding-edge version -- a = "code firewall", if you will. Commit access will be limited to an elite = team of Gentoo Linux developers. We will lock down upgrades so that = "emerge --update world" will only fix known bugs and security fixes. Each = release of this new server meta-distribution will have an official = one-year lifespan, during which it will be painstakingly maintained by us. = In-place upgrades to new releases will be fully-tested and very smooth. We = will have some cross-pollination with our current tree, but anything that = goes into the server distro will be carefully audited before being added. = We are still developing the goals for our new server project, but based on = feedback from the rest of our development team (who seem to be in near = unanimous agreement) it looks like the project will progress very closely = if not identically to how it is described above." Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is this for the = current 1.4 release in a production server environment? Thanks, Brett -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list