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 <pa...@poluan.info> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 21:29, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.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 > ~ IT Optimizer ~ > Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com > > -- sip:3...@perenaster.com sip:3...@perenaster.com sip:3...@perenaster.com sip:3...@perenaster.com sip:3...@perenaster.com
