! Pls don't flame me :-) ! Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers servers.
A customer of mine chose SLES 10 back then to run a VMware-Server installation (1.0.x back then) because they had some big company-license-pool available. That server is to be replaced and I asked them if they still want to use SLES because of that. Answer: no ... no more licenses available/paid. So they asked me for alternatives and I told them about gentoo. My question: how would you guys compare the 2 choices to report it back to them? People buy stuff like SLES to get/feel the feeling that all the choice and review of changes is done for them .... we didn't need one support-call in the last few years. And the gentoo-community is a helpful and competent one (yes, thank you!). So I tend to do the job with gentoo ... better they pay my work than some never-used support-contract ;-) I just plan to use stable gentoo there, be conservative with changes and keep the system up-to-date regularly ... as I use ~amd64 on my main machines I think I am rather informed about any *bigger* or problematic upgrades. It's gonna be a QEMU/KVM-host .. this and some rather powerful server should speed up those smallish and dusty VMs. Any thoughts? How to professionally deploy gentoo linux as a one-man-show? ;-) Best regards, Stefan
