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On 23 Oct 2008, at 11:49, Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> Here are my questions: |
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> - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? |
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I've played with Gentoo PPC pnly on the PS3, so am only a little more |
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experienced than you. Oh! I think I did a base install on an iMac a |
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couple of years back, but haven't touched it since. Anyway, for |
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packages that are in Portage, it seems fine. |
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> - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on |
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> nfs |
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> shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe just |
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> the distfiles? |
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I'm sure all of /usr/portage is fine. |
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> - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the |
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> distro I |
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> fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? |
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> Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? |
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For me, the inconvenience of learning another distro outweighs any |
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advantages it may have. I have a really nice TST ESR316 case here |
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which I bought a couple of months ago and which I am now finally |
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getting around to deploying; with a drive array of this size ZFS |
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really makes sense, but I just know that - any other considerations |
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aside - I'll end up just hating OpenSolaris' package manager and will |
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generally be less productive. |
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Your milage may of course vary. |
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It occurs to me that - if you're being GIVEN this laptop, and the |
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university are not expecting it back - you can probably get more for |
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it on eBay than you'll pay for a replacement x86 lappie (even, say, a |
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Thinkpad). I appreciate this might seem like a long way around the |
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problem, but it might save you from some PPC inconvenience. One just |
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knows _something_ will go wrong! |
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Stroller. |
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