| 1 |
>As a member of the server team and a sysadmin by trade. I'd like to ask |
| 2 |
>the Sysadmins of the list what's lacking from gentoo with regards to |
| 3 |
>server related stuff (daemons, services, management, clustering, HA, |
| 4 |
>etc). |
| 5 |
|
| 6 |
1. Ssh in the base system. Both OpenBSD and FreeBSD have this now. |
| 7 |
2. A decent adduser script. I've heard one is in the works. |
| 8 |
3. Knobs to tune where things get installed by emerge so that it can fit |
| 9 |
into a company standard. I know this is on the drawing board. |
| 10 |
4. tcpdump in the base system. It's so useful, and almost never installed |
| 11 |
when you actually need it. FreeBSD has this in the base system. |
| 12 |
5. Hardened security (or at least a security knob) has already been |
| 13 |
mentioned, but I'll throw in a me too. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
>I'd also like to know your thoughts on what needs to be improved to make |
| 16 |
>gentoo more likely to bein your server rooms supporting your IT |
| 17 |
>Infrastructure. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
I don't know that I'd ever run Linux as a server unless BSD or Solaris |
| 20 |
couldn't do the job. However, if I did have a need for a Linux server, I |
| 21 |
would use Gentoo. It's the only Linux distro that I've actually liked |
| 22 |
instead of just been able to tolerate. |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
Damon |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that |
| 28 |
would also stop you from doing clever things." --Doug Gwyn |
Archives