Subj : Re: Vector and Gentoo
To   : Tracker1
From : Mercyful Fate
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 10:47 pm

  Re: Re: Vector and Gentoo
  By: Tracker1 to Angus Mcleod on Wed Jun 01 2005 19:42:25

 > Gentoo is pretty much a DIY distro, it essentially starts with a cleaned up 
 > distro, and the "gentoo" way with emerge will compile software/packages for 
 > your setup.  I setup a mysql gentoo box, that pretty much only had the netwo
 > stack, and what was req'd for mysql.. nothing else.. it was connected via a 
 > giga-e crossover cable to the webserver it was being used with.. thing ran 
 > faster than anything I'd seen before/since...

yeah gentoo rocks, i've been running it since 2002 and have talk alot of peeps
into trying it and they all love it :)



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