I could see Gentoo being useful in business situations where a certain (probably proprietary) application demands a very specific (and largely unchanging) group of settings. You could throw Gentoo onto a virtual and configure it exactly as necessary to run that piece of software, even if you had to change obscure and dangerous settings, without messing with any other applications. It would also allow you to have very little extra junk on that single-app virtual server.

On Jan 30, 2008 2:21 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:
 I'm sure Gentoo is loads of fun if you're a hobbiest of some kind,
but I doubt it will gain any serious traction in the corporate realm.
So if your goal is marketable skills, Gentoo is clearly not the the
way to go.  Configurability can sometimes be a minus, as it adds to
the number of variables that need to be managed = cost++ = ROI--.  If
anyone knows of any specialty niches for Gentoo in the corporate
arena, I'd be interested to know.

 -jmz


On 1/30/08, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> From: stu <wien33@cox.net>
> > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 11:55 am, Technomage-hawke wrote:
> >> you guys should try gentoo sometime. it makes debian look dead easy.
>
> The config file management in Gentoo is pretty nice.  The annoying
> thing is setting up the USE flags properly.  Even with ufed, it takes
> a while to find all the stuff you need and set it to Y.
>
> > I haven't jumped into the Gentoo pool yet, but I'd like to give it a try
> > sometime. I do like the way I can net-install a base Debian system then pick
>
> > and choose whatever else I want.
>
> The thing to do with Gentoo is to read the Gentoo Handbook (how to install
> Gentoo) first.  Print out a copy (if you have a printer) or have another
> machine available to read the Handbook on while you're installing.  It
> takes ... 8 to 9 hours to "emerge kde" on a 2200 MHz Athlon with 1G, so
> do that (or emerge gnome, or whatever) overnight.
>
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