On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:36 +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > So I wouldn't expect any lower downtimes or costs when you'd use Gentoo. > Sorry but I don't believe that Gentoo is doing a great job in keeping > compatibility and stability (over for example 7 years) so that you would > have to invest a lot of time to fix systems after "broken" updates.
My experience has been otherwise, everywhere I have deployed Gentoo it required almost zero maintenance. However I must admit these were home users only. However looking at the cases in which Gentoo is deployed on a large scale (Medium to large clusters using Gentoo) I suspect it would be also suitable for a corporate environment. > > BTW your numbers seem to be wrong. I get 279 EUR für 7 years of SLED. My mistake, where did you get that figure? > OK, in my opinion SLED is pretty interesting for companies because they > don't have to care too much about the workstations themselves. Updates > are available a long time and do work in most cases so it's not much > maintenance needed (what would cause quite some costs for companies). > For installations with Gentoo you'd need more manpower to maintain the > systems I'd bet so it comes with a cost. I think you are right about SLED being interesting for companies. maybe Novell should make a interesting offering for home users looking for something very stable? Another problem is that SLED has security support for far fewer packages. SLED only provides support for suse-oss and suse-no-oss which isn't a whole lot (I guess around 3000 packages) in comparison to Gentoo/Debian/FreeBSD which have security support for respectively: 12.000/22.000/16.000 packages. > Compared with Windows I think it's in most cases no simple price > comparison. We are talking about two completely different systems with > advantages and disadvantages. In a corporate environment you also > mustn't compare with XP Home. So the price difference is not high and it > makes IMHO no sense to compare these prices. Compare everything else but > not the license/maintenance costs here. There you have a point, however it would be good for Novell to offer something for the home user besides openSUSE. > I don't have too many arguments in the home user space though. If people > want a Linux system which is supported for a long time they have to > invest money in some form. > Gentoo is also no option here IMHO because those people don't want to > "play" with the Linux system but work with it. > > Wolfgang I have deployed Gentoo many times to absolute Linux beginners without problems. As long as you know how to click an icon on the desktop you're fine. Any problems I encountered could be easily (within 10 minutes) be solved through SSH. -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
