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2009/1/27 Tom Brown <brown@××××××.com> |
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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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If your planning on running a stable server then managing a gentoo server is |
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probably a bit more time intensive, but will pay of in terms of having it |
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configured how *you* want and with the services *you* want running, not what |
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someone else thinks you should have. |
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As a rule of thumb dont run ~ARCH unless you absolutely need a certain |
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package (and even then, stick to keyword specific versions rather than |
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blindly keywording everything). Dont feel that you need to sync and update |
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every day, but *do* use tools like glsa-check (i think thats the right one |
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but im not in my gentoo isntall to check atm) to ensure you update programs |
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where security bugs are known. |
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Also its worth keeping an eye on things like the forums, and planet as often |
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when updates to packages are likely to break things, or they need some |
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manual intervention when updating, you see some signs of this in advance |
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(although if you see a major update in your emerge list you *should* be |
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stopping and going off to read up on it before blindly emerging). |
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Of course, all these things wont stop you causing breakages, but if you work |
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cautiously and have some idea of what your doing then gentoo does work very |
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well as a server. |
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- Nick |
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