Hi all Currently I seem to be expanding my client base a little, and have been rolling out some Linux servers to them. But seeing as I don't have a great deal of experience with all things Linux I'd like some frank pros and cons about certain things.
Firstly distro. My personal preference is Gentoo, I know where it puts the config files, I understand the packaging system, patching is dead simple, and overall I'm comfortable. But what are the pros and cons of Gentoo vs say Debian? Secondly kernels. At home I use 2.6.2-mm, or in Gentoo speak mm-sources, which performs fantastically. It's notably faster than 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 on my laptop, and performed great under heavy load, ie compiling KDE3.2. So stick with the tried and true but slightly slower kernel? Or the newer, untested but faster kernel? And finally filesystem. I really have no preference here as I don't fully understand the differences between them. On my most recent server I used Reiserfs and it goes great, but there's only 5 workstations on the network. The next one is likely to have 20-30 clients accessing the server, all via Samba. Again, pros and cons of using Reiserfs vs Ext3 vs XFS. Thanks ------------------------------------------------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------
