> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 17:01 +0000, Eduardo Tongson wrote: >> >> What makes CentOS 4.1 "more" stable than gentoo care to elaborate? > > The beauty of running a binary based GNU/Linux distribution not > particularly on CentOS alone but in general (includes Debian, Red Hat, > SuSE, Mandriva, etc.) is before the updates are released to the public > it has been tested and compiled for use in enterprise production use. > When I say updates here it doesn't mean of a new version number of the > packages. Instead, the security and bug fixes for the packages > installed in the system.
so obviously we need to exclude operating systems like FreeBSD and OpenBSD for any type of production use because they do not have binary packages? > > This is also the issue raised by Mr. Phillip Berry who started this > thread. I for one wants to have a Gentoo system in an enterprise > production use. This is not about bleeding edge, optimization, > performance and control. Gentoo is stable and is not bleeding edge unless you are using keywords and unmasking from the stable distro. > > Try to think of managing 100 servers all running Gentoo on 5 to 10 > different offices/companies with different services and customed > applications in production use. Do you think you can still manage all > of them? this assumes that one could manage 100 server of any distro in this manor... in fact gentoo lends itself to this environment better that most linux distrobutions because of portage overlays that allow you to tag specific machines for beta and production based on packages. It also allow you to build multiple packages and distribute them from a single source after testing. By the time you get to 20 servers anyway if you are using cvs (or other) to maintain config files and certain aspects of the os you are asking for trouble. That being said may we put this thread to rest? Gentoo is perfectly capable of running in a production environment, I have personally have 15 servers all running gentoo 2005.1. I also have several debian servers and freebsd servers.... it is all simply a matter of comfort. you should never put any system into a production environment unless your comfortable admining that system... period. So lets stop the pissing contest of my distro can beat up your distro and get to the real issues. > > --- > Linux GNUbie <gnubieATgmailDOTcom> > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
