From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kkhv0-0003ii-2P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:17:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99325E07F0; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42FD6E07F0 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 72617 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Sep 2008 16:17:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=yXhs1aPZFaThQLczT7mvBs9ydqZhGTyQkk4sOzQdMfaqvQI+lyGsMyDsdN54Q26bCSu0Y+BtqWKRJV4aq3CvSYr8vzkcM7ehmatWzzdvmWVKWvhEj8Y4/D78mZBAWmgJM/DBlj/O4EKFuTAZv6GuGS7fqXqqWZh/pi8s9dHLjKY=; X-YMail-OSG: _DwesxcVM1l8eC4_qWYq59d9lhIystFu2phLXr31vYkfUViPVN20rF1KRb_ssZqvs9OB4GMg1QGtYT18YwRDcNOBTo19c.mJrMVBRJ8HWxLtueMJMwkPScOj0wEMYZOfg.8fbjMA7.6dXTnTmu24JEzhYo4fZ1UfTdgExZDovHLaDUTx Received: from [12.52.185.66] by web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:42 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1096.40 YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:42 -0700 (PDT) From: BRM Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Server Packages for Gentoo To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <908514.71571.qm@web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0fb54368-c7cf-40f0-87b4-c75166a3a7c6 X-Archives-Hash: ec455ab48dfdce018a9aab50045775cf That's a matter of choosing what you install; but that's not specific to Gentoo. MySQL on Gentoo is not going to be any different than MySQL on RHEL or SLES. However, stability - due to differences in versions, patches, etc. - might be different; but should be close to the same. Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:05:08 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Server Packages for Gentoo BRM writes: > Unless my understanding is wrong... > > The idea of 'enterprise-level' packages with respect to Linux is more > or less stable packages over a long time period. Why? Is it not be more a matter of scalability than stability? So that, for example, an enterprise level database application might need to handle tables with tens of millions of rows and thousands of transactions per second. Or a file or email server be able to handle tens of thousands of user accounts etc.