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2009/4/22 Ryan Corder <ryanc at greengrey.org>:
>> If we built our servers on Gentoo, I think we'd have to hire AT LEAST 4
>> more sysadmins just to deal with the overhead and stay as up to date as we
>> do today.
>
> Given a good architecture and the right tools, this should hardly ever be
> necessary.  When I did it, I wrote my own but now tools like puppet, Capistrano,
> et al exist.  Unless you are pushing up in to the 1000 range for serves, I know
> from experience that two sysadmins can manage several hundred servers with
> relative ease using good monitoring, versioning, provisioning, and automation tools.


gentoo:  Given that you can pull binary packages and you control where
you get your portage tree from, I'm not really sure how much work it
would be.  I've done plenty of work with RHEL, and always come back to
having to manage my own repository for RPMs and controlling pushes for
overly paranoid stake holders.  If you only updated for GLSA's and
features you need you wouldn't be doing a ton of work.

Just playing devil's advocate here....

.r'