Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to run your updates on first before they went live. You also wouldn't run new packages unless they passed your own QA tests first.
Given the incredible flexibility of portage to support local mirrors, binary package preparation, and localized versions of packages (portdir_overlay), I would say that Gentoo is quite a contender in the enterprise environment. Perhaps we need some enterprise documentation to help people realize the full potential of portage? -Eric -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
