Hi there,
after playing around with gentoo linux and having come to like it I
seriosly consider migrating a pool of servers to gentoo at
work.
Production requirements are given, downtime is a no-go.
I would love to use FreeBSD for it's stability and performance, but
in the list of systems which support Java (List? What list? :-)
FreeBSD does'nt appear and the opportunity to test the latest and
greatest <java-related-buzzword> is a must.
So gentoo, which seems close to FreeBSD from the administrators point
of view (no flame war please :-).
Only some three things make me hesitate:
1. I have not yet understood how some - definitely important - config
files are kept in sync. Look at /etc/make.profile/packages. qpkg
seems not to find a port which claims ownership to this file,
nonetheless it *is* important - and especially important to be kept
up to date.
2. I use vanilla sources 2.4.20. OK, from gentoo's viewpoint this is
just a port like many others, no prob with that. Only the header
files, which I believed to be redundant, are nailed down to
"=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19" in the mentioned file. Any
attempt to use no headers at all or at least the version
corresponding to my kernel version failed. What gives?
3. Recently the shiny and new gentoo 1.4 rc3 version was
released. From FreeBSD I'm used to decently ignore any
announcements like this, because frequntly syncing the source tree
and rebuilding/installing kernel/world reliably provided me the
most current version of the "STABLE"-development branch.
How about gentoo?
Or, to put the question into another form: If I
- install gentoo 1.4 rc2
and daily
- "emerge sync" (in my case "emerge-webrsync" due to firewall
limitations)
- emerge -up world
will there be any difference to having installed gentoo 2.7 rc3 on
the day where it counts?
Regards, Ulf
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