Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 20, 2006 08:42 AM
1) Better understandig of how Linux works? Sounds more like you can now cut & paste from the Gentoo manuals. Linux per se is _only_ the kernel. And no, editing configuration files below<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc by hand does not make a you a Linux-Pro. UNIX hackers have been doing that for >20 years...
2) Sounds very subjective to me. Did you actually take the time to benchmark Suse vs. Gentoo? How much faster is your mysql, apache, sambe whatever churning through requests?
3) I've found them to be little more than cut & paste howtos that leave you wondering what's happening behind the scenes.
b) That's one of my biggest complaints with Gentoo. AFAIK there is no way to cherry-pick upgrades. I don't want to rebuild gcc or my libc every other day, _unless_ there's a security hole. This forces me to manually review almost every emerge. Yuck.
On a side note: Having a compiler installed on a real server sounds like a bad idea to me. But then, from your post, it sounds more like it's just an old tower sitting in the corner dishing out some files...
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Re:Gentoo is great on the Server
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2006 08:42 AM2) Sounds very subjective to me. Did you actually take the time to benchmark Suse vs. Gentoo? How much faster is your mysql, apache, sambe whatever churning through requests?
3) I've found them to be little more than cut & paste howtos that leave you wondering what's happening behind the scenes.
b) That's one of my biggest complaints with Gentoo. AFAIK there is no way to cherry-pick upgrades. I don't want to rebuild gcc or my libc every other day, _unless_ there's a security hole. This forces me to manually review almost every emerge. Yuck.
On a side note: Having a compiler installed on a real server sounds like a bad idea to me. But then, from your post, it sounds more like it's just an old tower sitting in the corner dishing out some files...
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