> Seems to me the spirit of Gentoo is not to 'compete' with redhat or any other distribution. > > Being more a meta-distribution allows the user to control what they have on > there machine. That and the portage systems keeps my machine up to date with > the software I choose to install. It also allows me to avoid rpm dependency > nightmares. (Anyone remember what it was like installing Xine on RedHat?) > > > If a company can not understand those issues, (Linux != RedHat) they should > stick with Redhat, and more power to them. But to expect Gentoo to become > like RedHat seems to me a way of limiting choice. > > Educate the companies.. do not dumb down Gentoo!
Anyway it is always possible that a third company picks up Gentoo and aims it for the corporate world, as in Gentoo-Enterprise or some such. For some reason Gentoo is a meta-distribution as you said. This implies that people can build specific distributions out of the current system. I am still wondering why nobody has done this. It seems like a great idea. You have the base, free, completely non-commercial oriented meta-distro Gentoo, and then you have other companies offer specialized versions aimed at different sectors. It is a win-win situation. -- Vano D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
