On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:51:44PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 22:20 -0600, Steve wrote: > > In otherwords... > > Gentoo iz teh r0xx0rz! > > Alas gentoo is a pretty poor choice for a linode account. There's not a > lot of disk, memory and CPU available. > > I also think most folks wouldn't run gentoo on servers either (it would > violate several security doctrines unless you did only binary packages). > > I also suffered greatly with Debian on linode (cursed stable vs > unstable). Finally going to Fedora and then to RHEL. The linode box is > really intended to be a server, not a desktop development machine. >
I'm running debian on my linode. First thing I did was upgrade to testing, and now I have a few unstable packages on the system without any problems. The stable vs unstable gap is rather large, but testing vs unstable is much smaller at the momemnt. Scott -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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