Preferred Linux Flavor for Web Server?

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Tue Mar 13 09:16:47 CDT 2007


On Tuesday 13 March 2007 01:47:18 am Luke-Jr wrote:

> Another benefit to Gentoo on servers is that you can more or less entirely
> omit desktop dependencies like X, ALSA, etc and keep the system at the
> minimum of what it actually needs.

I've run a number of RPM based servers that didn't have X or ALSA.  I've had 
problems with gentoo wanting to support wacom drawing tablets for almost any 
application I tried to install - including documentation packages!


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