Ubuntu CD's for Free

A. Khattri ajai
Wed Dec 8 09:36:50 PST 2004


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Net Llama! wrote:

> That might work great for someone with a small operation, or the home
> user, but in large scale enterprise environments, there is no 'during the
> night'.  My night is the middle of a business day in Asia or Europe.  And
> if you're building everything from source on a single box, and then
> deploying the binaries everywhere, you just nullified the entire advantage
> of gentoo.

Ignore the other advantages why don't you.

>  I can just as easily deploy binaries from Redhat and not have
> to worry about the hassles of maintaining build environments.

I choose not to pay RedHat for slooooowww updates. I think rsyncd is
pretty easy to maintain. Probably much easier than up-2-date.


-- 
drone n.

 Ignorant sales or customer service personnel in
   computer or electronics superstores.  Characterized by a lack of
   even superficial knowledge about the products they sell, yet
   possessed of the conviction that they are more competent than their
   hacker customers.  Usage: "That video board probably sucks, it was
   recommended by a drone at Fry's" In the year 2000, their natural
   habitats include Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, and CompUSA.



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