Also, want to point out why I went with Canonical's Ubuntu in that particular project:
While there were one or two packages that hiccuped when I was testing that box, it was still relatively painless. Decided between LTS Ubuntu and Debian based on Canonical support. New the company wouldn't be around much longer, but didn't know what would happen after the fact/wanted to make sure my successors had access to first-party paid support. -Sean
On 3/12/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
On 3/12/07, Jeremy Fowler [email protected] wrote:
Don't use Gentoo.
Why?
Scroll up a bit: "I'd had make and gcc running for a couple of days straight:"
It'd be fine to build Gentoo from source if it was a fairly permanent box, and it didn't have to be rolled out any time soon, but I'd rather have: A: (Lord forgive me) a binary, well-tested kernel, given that it's a remote server. B: A distribution where the standard modus operandi was to use binary packages. This affects everything from the docs (rare indeed is the Gentoo doc that doesn't require a source build/astandard USE flags) to the availability of binary packages.
I love Gentoo and use it every day at home, but on a lower-end box, and on servers in general, I'd tend to shy away from it.
-Sean