On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 at 19:50 -0600, Alex Esplin wrote: > You could start with an Ubuntu server install, which is pretty > minimal, and as Levi said, add the necessary dependencies for VMWare. > Another option would be to build a Gentoo system for it, which would > probably be smaller and less resource intensive than the Ubuntu > system,
Ok, I'm going to call your bluff. Gentoo is a lot of things, but less resource intensive is not one of those things. Oh, you were talking about the times when you're _not_ recompiling everything? Ok, let's think it over. Linux is Linux, and the software you run is the software you run. I dare you to demonstrate a human-noticeable speedup in boot time or minimalistic operating system setup that is due to compiler flags; I believe you would fail. The alternative then is that you believe gentoo has more streamlined startup scripts. Maybe gentoo does the parallel startup stuff and gets you a prompt before all your daemons are started. If so I commend gentoo. I think that's where we're all headed and I wish we'd get there sooner than later. Maybe gentoo just has fewer installed packages by default and therefore starts quicker because fewer daemons start. I've never done an ubuntu server nor a gentoo install, but I know it's really easy to disable or remove the daemons you don't want in a Debian-based distro (not as easy to disable as it should be, but no harder than any other distro in my experience either). Any admin worth his salt will take stock of what daemons are being started and adjust that to his needs anyway. So, why in the world do you believe gentoo is less resource intensive? You can partially restore my faith with the enhanced startup scripts argument (if it's true), but once it's booted one won't be noticeably more or less resource intensive than the other. I'll be happy to be proven wrong. Show me the measured speedup with the same set of daemons and same kernel configuration. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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