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You can easily turn a Gentoo instance into a museum piece if that's
what you want to do, or you can have it ferociously update every
last stitch three times a day. Or, you can do anything in between.
It can be as production-capable as you want to make it; I certainly
prefer it to distros that run package versions that date from a year
or two prior.<br>
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On 11/27/11 11:10 PM, Cameron Kilgore wrote:
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<div>I'd be hesitant to use rolling releases in a production
environment.
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<div>I use Ubuntu Server LTS and CentOS for all the servers I
need to deploy or develop on. If I need to update to a newer
software package, I can (and have) built from source.</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 8:46
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I'm all for Gentoo - straightforward as can be; excellent
package manager.<br>
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On 11/27/11 6:15 PM, Joshua Kite wrote:
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<div>Hi all - it's time I asked for some help. I'm
ready for a new server distro.
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<div>As background, my introduction to Linux was
Mandrake. I used to joke with my friends that we
needed to start a usergroup for those who refused to
compile anything, and Mandrake mostly avoided that.
After playing with Knoppix as a desktop for a while
I was introduced to Ubuntu and stuck with it until
around the time Unity was introduced and performance
on my particular configuration became unacceptable.
I now use Mint for my desktop and love it. </div>
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<div>I have continued to use Ubuntu server with good
results until today when I upgraded to 11.10 and had
yet another upgrade-introduced issue.</div>
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<div>My needs are relatively simple. I run the
following:</div>
<div>-SAMBA and NFS</div>
<div>-MPD (Music Player Daemon)</div>
<div>-Linux Virtualization (virsh)</div>
<div>-Completely headless - no X installed or required
at any point</div>
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<div>All of my remaining functionality is running on
virtual machines, and I'd like to leave those as-is
for now, although I might move them in the future.
These include relatively simple tools like Apache
and Dansguardian.</div>
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<div>One of the things I like about about a
distribution like Ubuntu is that, in theory, I can
run apt-get upgrade and update all of the packages
on the system. And, in theory, these have been
tested to work together. I always expect a minor
issue with an upgrade but not something that
prevents the system from successfully booting. What
I did not like about Mandrake years ago was the
challenge of dependency hell that seemed to come
with RPM-based systems of the day. However, at this
point I'm open to about anything.</div>
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<div>My knowledge there are probably four basic
choices:</div>
<div>-Gentoo (fun, resolves the upgrade issue, but
probably overkill)</div>
<div>-Fedora/Red Hat based </div>
<div>-SuSe based</div>
<div>-Debian based</div>
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<div>I've never worked with any of the "upstream"
solutions. Is it time for this technically
middle-of-the-road geek to take one of them on? If
so, what is the overwhelming recommendation?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Josh Kite</div>
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