Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are conservatives unwilling to roll with the changes to me.
- Grant
Oh, absolutely. I think it even cost me a job in the end. (Note: The job royally SUCKED and I am much happier now.)
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.
Oh, then he got the prices of Red Hat Network machines. On the ones that supported Oracle, they just decided to keep the RHN updated packages and apply them to other machines. New machines? They were rolled out with "Whitebox Linux" to appease the RPM-heads that we had. Whitebox Linux is some distro that some kids in a library came up with. It's bascially Red Hat w/o the Red Hat labels. No "enterprise support" at all, and in fact AFAIK the entire distro has become stale and people have moved to CentOS or something like that.
Meanwhile, the Gentoo boxes had 0 downtime and 0 security issues. The Red Hat boxes? Older Dell boxes were stung REALLY HARD when the megaraid kernel driver changed and they wouldn't boot after a security related kernel upgrade.
Long story made short, I'm no longer with that company and I found out that my ex boss pretty much ordered another admin to reformat the internal servers and make them Red Hat boxes. Yes, he was *that* anti-Gentoo, with absolutely no valid reasons whatsoever. This was also a person that considered managed switches to be totally unnecessary expenses.. in a data center, even.
I'm now employed elsewhere at 2x the money, and my side gig still has many Gentoo boxes running very well. :)
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