Preferred Linux Flavor for Web Server?

[Brian Kelsay]

"less than ideal" is an understatement.  I tried to install Gentoo on a
PIII-500 and it took a week of evenings to keep checing on it and approving
different items and setting USE flags, etc.  I wanted to say I'd done it, so
I did and I hated it.  I have no fond memories of looking back on it or
anything other than it was a complete waste of time and electricity.

Tons of reading, tons of little tweaker custom command lines to get things
to work.  In the end, no faster or no more useable than a Debian server
install or any other distro that took only one evening.


On 3/13/07, Jeremy Fowler <> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> I would have to agree that on a slower server, building from source is
> less than ideal. However, you can always do it during off-peak hours. If
> you kill the emerge process, you can always start it back up where it
> left off with the `emerge --resume`.
> <snip>
>
> Gentoo "Best Practices"
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22
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