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On Dienstag 27 Januar 2009, Tom Brown wrote: |
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> Hey guys, |
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> I've been using gentoo on my desktop for several months now. I works |
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> great. It cut five minutes off my build time when I build our product |
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> tree. It went from 20 to 15 minutes. |
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> I setup our email server using Debian. Its been solid as a rock and very |
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> low maintenance. However, it provides an antiquated environment. |
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> I'm looking at using gentoo for the email so I'll have an up-to-date |
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> system. Peformance is fine on the Debian system, but hey, faster is |
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> always better. |
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> I was hoping you guys could give me warm fuzzies about stability and |
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> maintenance with gentoo when it comes to a production server. |
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> What about major upgrades? If I keep the system updated regularly, is a |
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> major upgrade necessary? |
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> Thanks! |
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> Tom |
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a) always build with buildpkg - for backups |
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b) look into demerge |
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c) scan the logs with elogv |
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d) think twice before updating |
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I have gentoo on a small dns/dhcp/web server here for our 'dormitory' and it |
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works well. |
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