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Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful

Posted by kdawson on from the not-a-desktop dept.

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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  1. Gentoo is shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not just the "bleeding-edge" software, but especially the philosophy behind it.

    Gentoo may be good enough for the Linux lovers who care only about running Linux and not about using their computer, but please stop trying to make Gentoo look like it appeals to more than 0.00000001% of computer users.

  2. trollkorae by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fly...don't fear head spiining vary for different

  3. Re:The Problem With Gentoo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Okay, maybe Gentoo isn't only run by ricers, but all ricers are still running Gentoo.

  4. Re:This article makes good points. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah well I've tried to just get a Red Hat 9 system up-to-date. I don't even care what specifically changed, I just want whatever that lastest patches / security updates were. As far as I can tell this is pretty much impossible. The updater required Red Hat Network, which doesn't seem to work at all.

    Hell I can't get RH9 through Fedora Core 3 up to date without LOTS of work. So don't tell me Red Hat is any better.