On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:38:15 -0500
"Brett Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews
article. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
"Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro.
It makes Gentoo Linux the ideal distribution for
hobbyists who get lots of cool toys before everyone else,
but makes Gentoo Linux a questionable choice for
production server environments,"
"We're going to take pieces of the current
"bleeding-edge" Gentoo Linux meta-distribution, refined
them and use them as the basis for a robust,
well-maintained version of Gentoo Linux -- geared
exclusively for servers. For this project, we will reduce
the number of ebuilds in our server branch from 1800 to
around 400, at least initially. Our stable CVS tree will
be completely separate from our current bleeding-edge
version -- a "code firewall", if you will. Commit access
will be limited to an elite team of Gentoo Linux
developers. We will lock down upgrades so that "emerge
--update world" will only fix known bugs and security
fixes. Each release of this new server meta-distribution
will have an official one-year lifespan, during which it
will be painstakingly maintained by us. In-place upgrades
to new releases will be fully-tested and very smooth. We
will have some cross-pollination with our current tree,
but anything that goes into the server distro will be
carefully audited before being added. We are still
developing the goals for our new server project, but
based on feedback from the rest of our development team
(who seem to be in near unanimous agreement) it looks
like the project will progress very closely if not
identically to how it is described above."
Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is
this for the current 1.4 release in a production server
environment?
Thanks,
Brett
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