Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server installation

[Perenaster]

thank you al for your responses! this really helped a lot I will try to
install and use Gentoo as server and I also will contact the gentoo-server
mailinglist if I experienace any problems
Thanks
Tom

2011/6/10 Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 21:29, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:15 on Friday 10 June 2011, Joost
> Roeleveld
> > did opine thusly:
> >
> >> On Friday 10 June 2011 12:13:22 Perenaster wrote:
> >> > Hey,
> >> > I dont't know if this is the right list I'm writing to but I want to
> use
> >> > Gentoo as server. My aim is a small as possible installation of an OS
> >> > with only the modules I want. So I thought Gentoo might be the OS of
> >> > choice. Is it suitable for an server or should I look for an other
> >> > distro?
> >> > Is there anything in particular that I have to mention at the
> >> > installation? Thanks in advance,
> >> > Tom
> >>
> >> Hi Tom,
> >>
> >> Gentoo is quite usable as a Server. I use it as such myself.
> >
> > Funny think about Gentoo is that it can save you a few MB of disk space
> by
> > removing things you don't need.
> >
> > But it consumes 3GB of disk space to do it.
> >
>
> Heh, I personally don't really care about hard disk usage.
>
> All I know is, compared to other 'server'-oriented distros (or distro
> variant), Gentoo has the least amount of memory usage :-)
>
> Rgds,
> --
> Pandu E Poluan
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> Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
>
>


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