Conversion to Linux

[David Nicol]

the distributrions are all differentiated by their packaging systems,
and then by choices t of what-goes-where, which affects
interoperatbility, then by choice of library versions, which also
affects interoperability, then by sysadmin interface.  Gentoo uses a
modified version of the BSD ports packaging system.  Debian has "apt."
 Red Hat has "rpm" and the rpm wrapper "yum."  All these package
formats are mature.



On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Nathan Cerny <ncerny at gmail.com> wrote:

> Likewise, there is absolutely no room in the corporate environment for
> Gentoo...it takes too much time to get a stable system running, and the
> corporate environment doesn't need what it offers.

The things a corporate environment could use that gentoo offers are:

    centralization of configuration management (although this is also
offered by others)
    more secure because not using widely distributed binaries;
possible  to enforce that
    all systems corp-wide are compiled using
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack-smashing_protection StackGuard or
similar]

    If you want full control, though, "Linux From Scratch" recipes may
be better.  Gentoo offers a LFS-like situation where a lot of the
groundwork is already  done, and everything can get branded OurCorp
instead of Fedora.