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