Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful

Siker writes in to point out his blog post — Why Gentoo Shouldn't Be On Your Server — which seems to have stirred up a lot of discussion, including a thread on the Gentoo forums. From the post: "I firmly believe in updating server software only when you need to. If you don't need new features, and things are working, why change anything? If you update anything you will undoubtedly need to update configuration files. You will need to fix things that break in the upgrade process... This is hard with Gentoo. Gentoo wants you to change a lot of stuff. It wants to be bleeding edge."

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calling all trolls

[Zashi]

Someone tag this article flamebait because hoo-boy are the trolls going to be coming out of the woodwork for this. My prediction, around 200 comments along the lines of "You don't have to update constantly and still get the 2% performance increase from those 72 hours of compiling!!!1!!one"