I have used gentoo for almost 2 years on my dual mp2200 and I must say it kicks ass! I did a whole stage 1 install on the box and for the linux geek its a great choice. Word to the wise : this is not a distro for newbies! You must compile EVERYTHING if you do a stage 1 install. You boot off the cd - do all the bootstrapping etc and chroot into the install to finish it up. It took me from about noon till 2am to finish compiling.
For the linux newbie pretty much any flavor will do - Fedora/Debian/Redhat being my preferred installs. Thats my 2 cents on Gentoo tho. Everything is custom compiled for the box your installing it on. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabrice (grosnours) Toppi Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server Hardware Hi, most of others distros use precompiled packages (with predefined compilation options/optimizations). gentoo gives you the possibilty (obligation?) to choose the compilation options/optimizations for (almost) every single package. since hlds is precompiled, the impact is limited to libraries. but the main reason i switched from debian to gentoo, is that i love gentoo system administration methods. i never saw a linux as easy :) i don't know centos, so i could not compare, sorry. cu, grosnours GameOnline Game Servers Renting ADSL Provider http://www.gameonline.be [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry to jump onto someone elses post but was wondering if you could > explain > why you choose gentoo, and is there much between that ( for performance > ) in > compared to CentOS ? > > Thanks > B > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:29 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server Hardware > > >>> anyone know where to get a i386 version of gentoo or one that will work >>> on >>> a >>> p4 system (new to linux) for download? I want to try gentoo since it >>> seems >>> to be the craze on this mail list >> >> >> You'll probably want to start with the latest universal livecd. >> >> Choose a mirror from here: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml and >> then download >> pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.3/livecd/install-x86-universal-2004.3-r1.iso. >> >> Or, alternately, use bittorrent: >> http://torrents.gentoo.org/torrents/install-x86-universal-2004.3-r1.iso.torrent >> >> >> Then get ready for one of the longest and most complicated OS >> installation >> procedures. Luckily, the Gentoo folks do a good job of leading you >> through >> it: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml >> >> -John >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
