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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter |
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>> of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the |
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> I also get sick and tired of installing postfix on a database machine purely |
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> to send nagios alerts, and watching the distro "helpfully" want to pull in |
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> PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP, SASL, Courier and some fancy MTA-switcher thingy. |
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> All because the maintainer enables those features and now I gotta have them. |
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> No thanks. Rather give me USE so I say what goes on the box. |
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I'd have to agree. The main advantage of Gentoo over binary distributions is |
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that it is a great deal more configurable than any of the major binary |
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distributions. *I* choose, through USE flags, what I want to be pulled in, |
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compiled and merged. I have tried Debian, *BSD, Ubuntu, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora |
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Core, and others. I have found them to be bloated and slower, compared to |
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Gentoo (any time you have to pull in over 500 binary packages to install a |
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single package, there is definite bloat). |
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I will mention that the performance optimizations for Gentoo mainly lie in the |
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kernel configuration (the binary distributions compile just about everything |
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you can imagine into their kernels), and in fine tuning the USE flags, so you |
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you don't pull in anything you neither want nor need, thus limiting bloat. JMHO. |
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Regards, |
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Chris |
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