On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Dan Egli <[email protected]> wrote: > So, while I love Gentoo, I hear a lot of people talking about how they love > Mint, and that Mint has the same flexibility as Gentoo, but is easier to > install/configure/update. If that's the case I may have to give serious > consideration to moving over to Mint. But I'd really like to find out a bit > more first. As I have said before, I have used Gentoo on many occasions, > and never had any real problems with it as long as I set my USE flags and > my ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flags properly, and don't try to combine everything onto > one command line. But if Mint has the same flexibility for less > configuration time, I'd be curious.
Mint is primarily a Desktop distribution. Essentially it's just Ubuntu (or Debian) with different GUI parts. For servers, like you described, I would skip Mint and just use Ubuntu (or Debian) directly. In my opinion, using Mint for a server is like using Windows XP as a server. Sure it's possible, but kind of silly. Recommended server distros (in semi-random order): Ubuntu CentOS Debian Gentoo Arch Fedora /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
