Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-23 Thread Carlos Konstanski
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or > Red > Hat > > Check out http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574 for an interesting analysis > of gentoo optimizations. > > -Tim > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Mike Connors wrote: >&

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-23 Thread wes
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > > I thought it was odd they chose Ubuntu to compare against. I would think > Debian testing, RHEL, or Suse would be a more appropriate choice. > > I've run Debian stable and now testing on my laptop for about 3 yrs. Gladly > trading some of

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-23 Thread Mike Connors
Tim Garton wrote: > Check out http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574 for an interesting analysis > of gentoo optimizations. Thanks Tim! What I take away from this that in certain applications a small, 10% or so, performance gain can be had w. a custom build. However, in some cases Ubuntu performed just a

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-23 Thread Tim Garton
Check out http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574 for an interesting analysis of gentoo optimizations. -Tim On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > I recently had a tech interview w. an organization that runs Gentoo on > all its > servers. Part of the interview was to login into a test b

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-23 Thread David Fierbaugh
I have been out of practice on Gentoo for a while now, but found (especially on older/slower hardware) that side by side it did seem to run smoother and quicker (once you finally got it running smoother/quicker). For most common desktop applications and users, I doubt most would notice the differen

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Mike Connors wrote: > I recently had a tech interview w. an organization that runs Gentoo > on all its servers. Part of the interview was to login into a test > box, build a LAMP server, install some software and upgrade some > stuff. > > This was my first time ever doing a

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Connors
Andrew Jackman wrote: > Are they still interviewing? :) > Yes they are, and it's a great organization, The Open Planning Project. Their fine work includes the Trimet trip planner software. http://openplans.org/about/jobs/ > I like Debian, also, and I would use it in a heartbeat. My only problem

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Jackman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > I recently had a tech interview w. an organization that runs Gentoo on > all its > servers. Part of the interview was to login into a test box, build a > LAMP server, > install some software and upgrade some stuff. Are they still interviewin

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-22 Thread drew wymore
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > I recently had a tech interview w. an organization that runs Gentoo on > all its > servers. Part of the interview was to login into a test box, build a > LAMP server, > install some software and upgrade some stuff. > > This was my first time

[PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Connors
I recently had a tech interview w. an organization that runs Gentoo on all its servers. Part of the interview was to login into a test box, build a LAMP server, install some software and upgrade some stuff. This was my first time ever doing anything w. Gentoo and I was quite surprised by how di