Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

[thegeezer]

On 02/20/2014 12:53 AM, Facundo Curti wrote: I think a "more stable" distro is better for production. My choice is debian. I think you cant find nothing more stable that debian... >Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os where the admin knows each and every aspect of the os. This is true, but gentoo is a little unstable to use on production. The system must be on 365 days/year. ¿and when you need to update the system? This will use all the processor and the system will be overloaded. This means users can't use the system when this is updating... the advantage of clustering servers though is you can take one out and update it.   if you use a distributed compliation [1] and tell portage to keep the binaries [2] you can take a few out and do them together, then the remainder do not require compilation as the compile has been done. I think the best for a server is debian. I didn't try red hat but I see this like a commercial distro :/ Any way, red hat is very used as server. And if you choice to pay, you will have official support (Other wise, you are alone :/) many of the cluster tools and services are actually written by redhat so there is no surprise that there is much better integration. however i would much rather put gentoo in a public facing domain where you need the latest security patches always. getting clustering to work with gentoo can be a bit of a pain if you are just feeling your way the big question really is what is the purpose of your cluster ? shared database load? load balanced web servers? distributed file system? distributed multi system multi cpu calculations? distributed fast memory cache ? each thing has a different set of tools and management thereof. P.D: I'm sorry if my english is not perfect, i speak spanish 2014-02-19 21:36 GMT-03:00 Franklin Wang <touch2...@gmail.com>: Maybe it's intresting, although I prefer to use red hat, suse or ubuntu in datacenter as Google. Slackware servers're not very poppular here On 2014年02月20日 08:14, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On 20 Feb 2014 05:12, "Franklin Wang" <touch2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > and what about slackware for server? > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: > How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment? > Date: > Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:41:28 +0800 > From: > Franklin Wang <touch2...@gmail.com> > To: > gentoo-ser...@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-clus...@lists.gentoo.org > > > Hi all, > > I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you tell me > the experience about them? Thanks. > > > > > Franklin Wang > > > Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os where the admin knows each and every aspect of the os. Security wise, there are no unwanted or unused stuff, so lesser bugs to deal with. Clustering, well, you can do that using glusterfs -- skype:touch21st, Gtalk:touch21st, Yahoo/MSN:franklinwan...@yahoo.com, Xing/Linkedin:Franklin Wang [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4