Any advice for a new server?

[René Berber]

Chris Yuzik wrote:

> 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. :-)

Yep, that's the beast that really makes you wonder, why compile everything? ;-)
-- 
René Berber