[gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread qfpvajdy
Hello, I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers). Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but soon we could be forced to uses for everybody only one system. I must

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Givernaud Omar
Hello, - Gentoo has an important, active, community - Completly configurable - power of portage Best regards Trax qfpvajdy wrote: Hello, I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Dale
Givernaud Omar wrote: Hello, - Gentoo has an important, active, community - Completly configurable - power of portage Best regards Trax qfpvajdy wrote: Hello, I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:37:27 +0100 (CET) qfpvajdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers). Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Kent Fredric
Bottom posting here. :D Also has some of the best docs there is. I know because most of the time when I have a problem, someone points me to them. ;-) Dale I concur, gentoo IMO provides more to the OSS with the ability to compile the whole system wit h debug options, yet with a

RE: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2007 10:06 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux? Hi, - snip - - needed customization can be done the easiest - admin skills

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 19 January 2007 12:05, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Those are not important in any case where the budget dictates matters (i.e. everywhere). Those aren't even good things to bring into play against RH and FBSD, because those do that fine, too. IMHO the only really compelling reason for

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Kent Fredric
I concur, gentoo IMO provides more to the OSS with the ability to compile the whole system wit h debug options, yet with a splitdebug feature to prevent the usefulness of full stack traces all the way to glibc degrading run time performance :) Also, documentation in gentoo and amongst her users

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:37:27 +0300, qfpvajdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers). Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Shawn Singh
Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but soon we could be forced to uses for everybody only one system. Sounds like a cool organization. :) As far as considering FreeBSD, it's a great OS; however, I'd describe it as more as an alternative to using Linux. This is certainly