-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 April 2003 9:33 am, Tan, Stephen wrote: > At the risk of having someone flame me, I'm not sure I'd run Gentoo on > Corporate desktops or servers. I don't think that it's stable enough for a > production environment.
I have to take exception to this. I just did a migration from RH to Gentoo and I'm finding that the Gentoo is MUCH easier to manage. Patches seem to come out sooner. And I don't seem to get into "RPM Hell" nearly as much. <grin> > (Having had 2 occasions in the past 6 months that I have been running > Gentoo where portage/emerge related issues have hosed (a) gcc and (b) > libstdc++.so, I'll stand by that statement!) I upgraded gcc w/o any problems. > I have Gentoo running on my desktop here at work and at home, but the real > production machines are Debian. Debian's stable really is stable! Gentoo is > nifty and extremely cool but is prone to nasty emerge issues such as the > ones I have just noted. Gentoo rocks as a desktop. Older machines become viable once again. I like it on my servers because Gentoo is so minimal when it's installed. I don't have to worry about security w/ (x)inetd, ftp, etc. Just my $.02 Mike Diehl. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jUDYSrJcwl1jOi4RAnk/AJ4wqjxKDprJeRi/C7gsDffw95taBwCfQUnC 6FUOwS9B+5Ooug0PqTxBl5U= =wnNs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
