Any advice for a new server?

[Chris Yuzik]

René Berber wrote:
> Chris Yuzik wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm not a Slackware user like Res is, but I'm overall happy with Centos.
>> I've been the Gentoo route, and while compiling small things from source
>> is fine, having to compile for 12+ hours straight on a production server
>> is NOT cool, and imho offers little benefit over installing pre-compiled
>> binaries for your hardware.
>>     
> [snip]
>
> Gentoo also offers pre-compiled packages, installed with the same tool (emerge)...
>   
René,

Thanks. I did not know that. I should have pointed out that it's been 
years (about 3 and a half) since I last played with Gentoo. I still 
remember spending 2+ days compiling openoffice.org. :-)

Chris