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On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:01 am, mathieu perrenoud wrote:
> I tought you might be interested in some news from your favorite distro:
>
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> Despite signs of abating interest in it, Gentoo Linux was one of the most
> remarkable success stories of this year. Portage, Gentoo's package
> management system, has clearly won many supporters at the time of growing
> dissatisfaction with some binary package management formats, although
> excellent documentation, active support forums and valuable community
> newsletters have all contributed to Gentoo's becoming one of the most
> widely used Linux distributions today. But despite frequent assertions by
> die-hard Gentoo converts, questions still remain about the product being a
> viable option for a large-scale deployments on mission-critical servers.
I agree, until we get a server type portage tree, I wouldn't put it on a
mission critical server where my job laid in the balance.. I have used gentoo
since it was announced of the first version, but the portage tree is a huge
moving target..
Servers don't need bleeding egde, it needs consistancy..
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Weird enough for government work.
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