On Dienstag 27 Januar 2009, Tom Brown wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've been using gentoo on my desktop for several months now. I works > great. It cut five minutes off my build time when I build our product > tree. It went from 20 to 15 minutes. > > I setup our email server using Debian. Its been solid as a rock and very > low maintenance. However, it provides an antiquated environment. > > I'm looking at using gentoo for the email so I'll have an up-to-date > system. Peformance is fine on the Debian system, but hey, faster is > always better. > > I was hoping you guys could give me warm fuzzies about stability and > maintenance with gentoo when it comes to a production server. > > What about major upgrades? If I keep the system updated regularly, is a > major upgrade necessary? > > Thanks! > Tom
a) always build with buildpkg - for backups b) look into demerge c) scan the logs with elogv d) think twice before updating I have gentoo on a small dns/dhcp/web server here for our 'dormitory' and it works well.
