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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.
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