Obligatory Gentoo Reference: http://funroll-loops.info/
Linc. On 01/12/2010, at 8:27 AM, Jason Stirk wrote: > A bit late I realise, but I figured I would throw in my 2c. > > We use Gentoo across the board as much as possible after moving from > RH/Fedora. > > Gentoo appeals to me in that it works out of the box 99% of the time for the > common case, but can easily be changed to handle more advanced needs without > needing to abandon the package manager. > > eg. A lot of distros ship bind without DLZ support (ie. loading zone data > from a DB like MySQL). Gentoo ships without it by default too, but it's a > single flag to turn it on. The binary package distros I've used would require > you to install bind from source, external to your package manager, and hope > to hell nobody forgets and installs the package. > > This is where systems like RPM break down IMHO; you're on your own and have > to build from source as soon as 1) you need a newer version than is provided > officially, 2) you need a package not provided, or 3) you need a feature not > enabled by default. You now need to remember whether a package is installed > from source or from RPM. My experience is that all 3 of those options is > almost a guarantee with distros like CentOS where they are very conservative > about pushing new versions out (for good reason, considering they are pushing > the Enterprise aspect). > > Another thing I like with Gentoo is that I can satisfy deps myself (eg. ruby) > and tell the package manager that it's provided already, and everything just > keeps working (with no risk of someone else trying to install it over the > top). > > It also pleases me that I can install ImageMagick without it bringing in > every freaking X and Gnome library ever written (RH/Fedora, I'm looking at > you...). > > That said, Gentoo certainly isn't for someone who doesn't have a lot of > experience with Linux, or generally just needs what the defaults give them. > > Works well for us though. > > All the best, > Jason > > On 27 November 2010 18:43, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi RoRoers, > > Quick survey, what is your current deployment OS of choice and why? > > Reason I ask is there is a lot of movement recently, my current deployment OS > of choice is CentOS, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth and sometimes > has interesting yum problems on updating software, I can get anything I want > installed of course using direct installs, but would like to get a bit of > feedback from our community on what you are using these days. > > For some reason, I look at Ubuntu as just a desktop OS, I know this is > irrational, but I have been seeing more and more ubuntu installs on screen > casts and the like, are people using this because they find it easier? Are > they (gasp) running the GUI on it in production? What is the attraction here? > > > Mikel Lindsaar > http://rubyx.com/ > http://lindsaar.net/ > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
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