> One of the biggest advantages is the low cost of hardware allows you to > maintain spare systems, reducing the time to service restoration in the > event of failure. Dependability-wise, I feel that whitebox Linux systems > are pretty much at Cisco levels these days, especially if running > in-memory.
With your guidance, I can put together a gentoo environment that will run in memory tailored for this purpose, and would be obliged to share it with the community if anyone else is interested. N.