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It mainly depends on your own feelings. I think that a debian stable |
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is a very good choice for a prod' server, but I really dislike the way |
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Debian manages daemon and prefer the Gentoo approach. Updates are not |
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painless...for sure, but you have to consider your needs first (what |
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tools do you need ? typical web services ? extra lib from different |
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languages ? any time reserved for maintenance or the server cannot be |
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off ?). Then, updating is not a must. Believe me, an up-to-date |
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machine is nice .... when you want brand new lib/features/softwares. |
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Do your server need to be so.. up-to-date ? |
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Finally, if you take time to estimate what should be updated prior to |
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emerge the whole world, you can plan your updates and organize the way |
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to go back if required.... and updates are not nightmares. (But have a |
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look at the handbook: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2). You |
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also need tools like dispatch-conf to undo easily your conf files |
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changes. |
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Gal' |
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On Nov 29, 2007 2:10 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very |
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> helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. |
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> For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate |
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> to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care |
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> with updates. |
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> Ricardo, i find really encouraging the fact that your lab uses Gentoo for |
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> their servers. Nevertheless it would be great if you could tell us a little |
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> about your lab's experience with updates, which seems to be the only issue |
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> when using Gentoo on a server. |
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> Another thing i noticed is that some of you recommend to have a secondary |
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> server to perform tests, i totally agree with this. Unfortunately i do not |
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> think that having such thing will be possible since the server will be |
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> charged to a client and i do not think they will agree to buy a second |
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> server (even if its the right thing to do, which i believe so), in such |
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> case, would you still recommend Gentoo?. |
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> Again, thanks to everybody for the information. |
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