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Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: |
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> First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very |
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> helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. |
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> For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly |
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> adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have |
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> special care with updates. |
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> Ricardo, i find really encouraging the fact that your lab uses Gentoo |
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> for their servers. Nevertheless it would be great if you could tell us a |
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> little about your lab's experience with updates, which seems to be the |
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> only issue when using Gentoo on a server. |
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> Another thing i noticed is that some of you recommend to have a |
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> secondary server to perform tests, i totally agree with this. |
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> Unfortunately i do not think that having such thing will be possible |
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> since the server will be charged to a client and i do not think they |
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> will agree to buy a second server (even if its the right thing to do, |
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> which i believe so), in such case, would you still recommend Gentoo?. |
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Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) |
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Those things can be life savers! |
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Wayn0 |
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