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On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? |
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> > For |
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> > server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup |
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> > or use case? |
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> Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation sometimes |
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> does; at other times it's experimenting with other distributions. |
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> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's |
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> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its |
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> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit chroot set up as |
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> an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages available |
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> for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though. |
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> The Atom serves web, time, squid proxy, dns, cups and mysql to the LAN. It |
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> runs http-replicator and rsyncd to keep a local portage tree for the other |
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> boxes. I'd like it to serve mail too, but I've never managed to set that up. |
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Putting email on the Atom using IMAP might not be the best option. IMAP can be |
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quite heavy on resources on the server-side. |
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I use a quad-core AMD for my server. |
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Joost |