Check out http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574 for an interesting analysis of gentoo optimizations.
-Tim On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently had a tech interview w. an organization that runs Gentoo on > all its > servers. Part of the interview was to login into a test box, build a > LAMP server, > install some software and upgrade some stuff. > > This was my first time ever doing anything w. Gentoo and I was quite > surprised by > how different it was than say Debian or RH. Not to mention the lack of good > documentation or what I call "build guides" that you can follow and will > help > you build out a server. Granted, they're never perfect but can usually > get you > 85% or more of the way home. > > So, my questions for discussion are: > > 1. Gentoo's claim to fame is that by compiling each package for the > specific architecture that performance gains are realized. > Has anyone found this to be empirically true? > > 2. If I were making the decisions on which Linux distro to run, I would > choose > one which I think would more people would tend to have experience with > and that > has a greater mindshare such as Debian or RH. > > 3. Does anyone have significant experience working on or supporting Gentoo? > If so, what has your experience been? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
