Hi, This is in the same line as my "Gentoo course on paper" I had also to wright a paper "with Linux to choose", so if you all could give me some feedback. You can find it on: http://users.pandora.be/delta_quadrant/REDHATvGENTOO.pdf
Its not quite done, but a raw draft and to be honest i took some text from some discussions on gentoo-user, because some people here can express them selve very well.
TIA PAtrick
The main question I have about this PDF is, "Who is it aimed at?" The people who have to authorize the switchover from whatever is on the servers now to Gentoo? The people that have to pay for the training of the personel who have to administer the servers? The personnel themselves (as an introduction)?
All the points are clear and well-made, but without a focus, it's hard to judge the paper as a whole. I mean, those who have to authorize payment don't care about source-based vs. RPM, those who are concerned about whether they have support need assurance that the personnel who will now be responsible for support *can* be trained to adequately provide it (whereas under RedHat, RH takes care of that), those who actually have to learn how to use either Gentoo or RH just want the facts-- and in a corporate environment no one cares whether or not Frozen Bubble is available or easy to install :-D , fools that they are, lol.
The document as it stands doesn't "sell" Gentoo to anybody in particular, it just says, Gentoo is better than RedHat, without reference to the specific needs of those you're speaking to. So it doesn't tell those specific people why Gentoo is better than RedHat *for them*. But you certainly have pretty much all the good points covered. They just need to be targeted to your audience.
Am I making sense?
Holly
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