From: Jeff Barczewski Date: 2007-02-10T13:27:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Linux OS ------=_Part_52400_16735615.1171081656167 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 2/9/07, Martin DeMello wrote: > > On 2/9/07, Luke Ivers wrote: > > > > So, given that I find out exactly what I need and works best for me > > personally in this VM, I will then use that as a basis for how to build > > production servers. > > > > If I understand what I've read correctly, Gentoo would be good for that, > > yes? > > Most definitely! My Gentoo story goes in the other direction - our > sysadmin is using it for our servers, and then for our desktops, and I > liked it so much that I installed it on my machine at home too. > > martin I agree. I started out using Gentoo on VMWare on a laptop, and now have many installations including another laptop and a server. I enjoy using it far more than any other distro. Administration, installation/upgrading of new packages is extremely easy and you'll rarely find something that it doesn't have. No more manually pulling source and all dependencies. No more trying to find someone that has compiled in your particular feature, just configure what you want and emerge it. It just works. There is a little more setup at the very beginning, but after that everything is very straight forward and easy to maintain. Plus you end up with everything tailored to your exact needs. A wonderful distro! It is also nice to have only what you want installed both from a memory and performance footprint but also for general security as well. And if you really want additional security features, they have a full range of hardening features for the sources. Enjoy! -- Jeff Barczewski, MasterView core team Inspired Horizons Ruby on Rails Training and Consultancy Next Ruby on Rails plus JRuby workshop Feb 22-24 St. Louis, MO http://inspiredhorizons.com/training/rails/index.html Limited seating, register now! ------=_Part_52400_16735615.1171081656167--