[CentOS] Issues with CentOS in enterprise

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Dec 13 18:01:42 UTC 2010


lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
>> Anyone who advocates maintaining from source has simply never
>> administered more than a handful of machines at a time.
>>
>> Great way to learn, but impractical for hundreds to thousands of
>> machines.
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_%28software%29#Binary_Packages
>  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4
>
>  Most useful if the machines in question are identical or near identical.
>
And all on the same side of the firewall(s). On the other hand, how can
they be against "OSS", when they've ok'd gentoo. I mean, have they gone
through *all* the code? <g>

       mark




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