If you are building out a Gentoo server, it takes me roughly 2 hours for a complete LAMP w/rails server updated to the newest builds. I'd say gentoo is wonderful for servers as i've built about 15 or so of them and they barely need to be touched other than the occasional "world" update. I run Gentoo on my home rig dual booted to WinXP and I can safely say that I thoroughly enjoy it. Yes, it took me about 15 hours of downloading and building packages but getting 100+ FPS in World of Warcraft and just overall system stability is well worth it. Just go to sleep when it's building packages but make sure the core Gentoo system is patched up to today before doing an emerge -vuD world and ensure your USE flags are set for your liking.
If anyone ever needs any help with Gentoo, please feel free to message me on IM or Skype or whatever. I don't mind at all. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu>wrote: > I spent some time with Gentoo, too. Gentoo is similar to Linux from > Scratch, in that you have to build everything. > I spent more time, just trying to do the basic stuff on Gentoo, then I ever > spent with any other distro. Dozens and dozens and dozens of hours, just > trying to get a decent, working system. > > In the end, I realized that building everything from scratch is an > interesting educational exercise, but it isn't really practical for most > people, including me. There is a reason that a lot of people and time are > put into individual distributions. It takes a TON of knowhow to build > something really good. Honestly, I don't have the time and expertise to > build something half as good as any of the readily-available distributions. > > My two cents... > > Chris > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, t35t0r <t35...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > I was wondering if anyone here has tried this? I have loaded and setup >> > various distributions but have never built a Linux distribution from >> > scratch. >> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ >> >> The closest I've come to that is gentoo. >> >> >> > > > > -- Chris Faulkner 615-653-4400 (Skype: chris.faulkner615) Linux/Unix/Windows Network Engineer LinkedIn TeamNashville Group: 1100+ members: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=76329 BBS Enthusiast group: http://groups.google.com/group/80sbbs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
