Preferred Distribution

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My home workstation and server are all on Gentoo.  I love meta-distributions as they are extremely light, especially for a server.  Though as somebody else said on here, if you had 100s of servers to manage it could be quite difficult pushing the package changes out.

On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:01:13 +0200, John Wilcock <john at tradoc.fr> wrote:
> Erik van der Leun wrote:
>> I'm quite happy with my choice for
>> Gentoo Linux really...
>>
>> I use the MailScanner tarball and handle the rest gentoo-wise.
>>
>> I haven't seen much gentoo users on this mailinglist yet though :-)
> 
> I've recently switched from Redhat to Gentoo at the suggestion of my
> favourite hosting company - I leased a test server for a month and never
> looked back. The build-everything-from-source philosophy appeals to me...
> 
> On my production server I'm currently using the slightly-outdated
> version of MailScanner (4.57.6.1) in the sunrise overlay, and I'm
> intending to experiment with generating an updated ebuild soon on a
> spare server.
> 
> John.
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