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Hello, |
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I am thinking of moving from Debian to Gentoo on my home server, which |
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is an Alpha XL-366 (xlt milo image). The machine currently runs Apache2, |
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ssh, fetchmail and procmail with spamassassin and clamav to filter |
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unwanted mails, a simple firewall script (iptables, with nat and |
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masquerading for my networked machines, can be found at |
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http://www.asgardsrealm.net/linux/firewall/) and acts as a file server |
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using Samba. I have a few questions to ask of people who have been using |
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Gentoo on Alpha for a while. |
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1. I heard that the fact that you can compile everything for your |
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machine type, with all the necessary optimisations, makes a nice |
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difference in system speed. How true is it? Can someone with a similar |
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setup to my own comment on that? I'm especially hoping that Perl will |
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see a nice speedup, since I do lots of Perl coding in my free time, and |
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spamassassin is written in Perl too and currently takes about 3-5 |
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seconds per message. |
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2. Will the transition from Debian to Gentoo be painful? I'm especially |
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worried about getting everything to work the same as it did on Debian as |
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fast as possible. As you can see above, the whole home network depends |
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on this machine... |
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3. Also, how do you think the transition from apt to portage will be? |
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I'm wondering if it's similar to apt, in the sense that you can download |
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updates (new versions) to currently installed software and install them |
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automatically (compiling as needed, I guess). |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Jean-Sébastien Guay jean_seb@×××××××××.ca |
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http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ |
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