Hi, On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]> wrote: > > True. But when it comes to upgrading a really old box, nothing > compares to the problems you'll have on Gentoo. Nothing. >
*snickers* I think Gentoo gets a bad rap in this respect. For example, just this week I pulled an old x86 machine out of the closet that hadn't been booted in about 650 days (internal clock still worked, and fsck reported 657 days since last check), plopped in 2x 2Tb WD drives I picked up on the cheap, synchronized the portage tree, and kicked off a build. Granted, the build is still going four days later, and its quite a toasty room I have now, but..... the process works. I've been using Gentoo since about 2003, on everything from a Sun pizza box, to x86/x86_64 PCs, laptops, and netbooks, and even to an s390 mainframe--so perhaps I'm biased. :-) The OP asked which native distribution would be best suited for a deployment of high performance KVM-managed guests, which Gentoo is obviously the winner, and being KVM capable pretty much rules out any machine that would be a challenge for Gentoo installation/maintenance. Gentoo is just a very powerful gun that can simultaneously shoot forwards and backwards. With anything powerful comes risk. -Jesse -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those that can read binary and those that can not. _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 2 - Android Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie Aug 4 - Samba
