On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 00:48 -0400, Sean Cook wrote: > > 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?
They're not GNU/Linux, they're *BSDs. I was only referring to GNU/Linux distributions. > Gentoo is stable and is not bleeding edge unless you are using keywords > and unmasking from the stable distro. Granted that Gentoo is stable for production use because I believe you're not the only systems administrator that use it in production environment. I am just wondering if the services you're running on your Gentoo systems are customed applications which might be requiring commercial databases like Oracle and IBM DB2, and also requires a particular version of tools and libraries of the said applications. > 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. I don't have any problems with the rest of the packages to update in Gentoo. I personally like the package management of Gentoo and I'm very much excited and hopefully be confident to use it in production. Again, I am just worried if my customed applications will not work one day simply because the tools and libraries that my applications are very much dependent were updated to the latest versions which it shouldn't happen. I only need the security and bug fixes updates for the packages that my customed applications are dependent. > 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. You're right in here. Hopefully I'll be confident and comfortable enough to use Gentoo in my production environment. Thanks. --- Linux GNUbie <gnubieATgmailDOTcom> -- [email protected] mailing list
