On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß <nor...@smash-net.org> wrote:
> Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: > > On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: > >>> How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? > >>> For > >>> server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup > >>> or use case? > >> > >> Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation sometimes > >> does; at other times it's experimenting with other distributions. > >> > >> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but > it's > >> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its > >> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit chroot set > up as > >> an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages > available > >> for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though. > >> > >> The Atom serves web, time, squid proxy, dns, cups and mysql to the LAN. > It > >> runs http-replicator and rsyncd to keep a local portage tree for the > other > >> boxes. I'd like it to serve mail too, but I've never managed to set that > up. > > > > Putting email on the Atom using IMAP might not be the best option. IMAP > can be > > quite heavy on resources on the server-side. > > > > I use a quad-core AMD for my server. > > > > -- > > Joost > > > > Depends on how you use it. I have an IMAP-Server running on Atom which > holds my email archive. Also depends on the Software you use for the > IMAP-Server. > I can not see why a N270 could not serve a moderate amount of users on > IMAP. > > Concerning the "Atom not fast enough for compiling"-Problem. I compiled, > run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less > powerfull and it works just fine. > > Norman > > Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc? - Matt
