On May 9, 2014, Matthew Walker wrote: > I'll be blasted for this, no doubt. But I run Gentoo on my servers. They
> only get EXACTLY what I need them to have. Exactly. That's one of the reasons I like Gentoo myself. > Admittedly, it's only 3-4 servers, and they're low maintenance. I would > never do Gentoo for a large server farm, much as I love it. Why not? Especially since server farms frequently all use the same package set (maybe one or two machines do different), you could just compile the packages on one server, save them, and use that server as a binhost for the other servers. Not too complicated. Now if you need a completely different package set on each server, then maybe it's a bit of a pain. But even then, you just get the packages you need, then add distcc and let each package compile through distcc, leveraging the power of that server's cpu and several of it's neighbors. Just offset the compile process so they don't all try to compile at the same time. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
