[ale] gentoo lunix? <-subconcious spelling error?

[James P. Kinney III]

As if I _need_ an excuse to tinker with a new distribution...

Gentoo looks like a great process for building a server. With every
thing built onto the box, it should be a nearly perfect fit of software
to hardware.

But the thought of "gentoo'ing" 3, 8, 25 not-all-exactly-the-same
workstations has no appeal to me at all. I guess as long as the cpu is
in the same class, a level 0 dump of the first could be restored onto
the blank drives and then some boot tinkering done. 

The real advantage of the binary installations is the fact that, for the
most part, they are one size fits all. It's very easy to crank out a
good working Linux box with RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, or
Suse. It is highly optimized? No. As a professional admin can I get all
10 of them done (installed, locked down, ready for users) in less than a
day? Yep! Paycheck time. Would I seriously consider Gentoo for a
specialized server? Yep! 



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