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Until last week's unfortunate beer spilling incident, I was using a macbook, along with a long standing server instance running Gentoo on RackSpace, with furthe
by grammaton 16y ago
Until last week's unfortunate beer spilling incident, I was using a macbook, along with a long standing server instance running Gentoo on RackSpace, with further instances spun up and then disposed of as needed.
I have to say I find it kind of amusing how many people on HackerNews use Apple gear.
- mitchellhislop 16y agoUsing the Gentoo instance like a VM?
- grammaton 16y agoNope, just SSH into it, treating it as if it where a plain old hosted box.
- mitchellhislop 16y agoI see i see. I love having boxes to do that with. Never tried Gentoo-whats the draw to that?
- semanticist 16y agoI used Gentoo four/five years ago, and the draw was the amount of optimisation available. Everything's compiled from source with optimisation flags for your specific hardware rather than the generic 'works pretty much everywhere' options that are used for pre-built binaries with most distros. The down-side is that it was - at that time, at least - a huge nightmare to maintain and do major upgrades. Almost as bad as CentOS. Waiting for things to compile every time you install something also got boring pretty quickly. I moved to Ubuntu, and I'm now considering moving to just Debian for future VMs I build.