On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > A discussion about "enterprise linux distros" came up, and my old boss > (who is a complete idiot) turned and looked at me and said "And Gentoo > will *never* be one of those distributions.." before going back to his > conversation. > The Gentoo servers were in place long before this guy started. He went > on crowing about how we needed "Enterprise level support" yadda yadda.
I am a programmer and a systems administrator who has been using Linux since it started (on a 486DX PC!). I was a long-time RedHat user and dabbled in Debian and a few other distros. Your comments about "enterprise support" is the reason why people stick with bad choices. They say noone ever got fired for picking Micro$soft. My response to that is: "Why the hell not?!". After losing free RH updates I started looking around for something better, something easier to maintain, something NOT based on RPM (I was already tired of hand maintaining various packages from tarballs on RH boxes). Needless to say, I have been converting all of my servers to Gentoo (I work for an ISP so these servers are in production in an "enterprise"-like environment). I have great performance, reliability and simple updates - all of the things that are important to "enterprise" customers. A few months ago I ran into a friend who I worked with several years back. I asked him how his servers were doing. I was laughing in my head when he told me, "Oh, I switched them all to Gentoo". ;-) -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
