>>> Kurt Albershardt <[email protected]> 06/18/12 9:06 PM >>> >As a system architect, I really like Gentoo. As a system administrator (after >several years of use on many servers) it frustrated me -- eventually to the >point where it drove me right off the bus. >
>Previous suboptimal experiences with Slackware and Red Hat had led me to >Gentoo. Its "bleeding-edge is good" change management process eventually >drove me to Debian. I inquired about sipx on Debian some years back and >received >'less than hopeful' replies. > >Over time, I have come to understand that distro biases are mostly about >sysadmin tasks -- and the those mostly boil down to personal preference. > >At this point, the overwhelming majority of the Linux world has coalesced >around rpm and apt for package management. While I have my own preferences, I >can hardly fault a development team with limited resources when it chooses to >>support only one of those models. Current (template-based) virtualization >platforms are on the way to eliminating distros as anything other than a >footnote regardless. > > > >For the record, I prefer CentOS or Debian server platforms -- both embrace >relatively conservative change management philosophies and have healthy bases >of "big server" users. I'd encourage you to take the dive and see if you can get a gentoo build stable. We build our own Suse builds and its the only thing we deploy. Sure, its a bit of work and you have to be prepared to do your own upgrade process. But for us its more than worth it. And with 4.6 around the corner, we've dodged a bullet because we can upgrade without the full reinstall like the centos builds ;-) None of the deps are too difficult to build from source. And I think a wide diversity of distros helps widen the audience for sipx. -M
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