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> I can easily imagine supercomputers running Gentoo Yeah, nice one! Very customized flags required. I was more talking about typical backend services, like
by cies 9y ago
> I can easily imagine supercomputers running Gentoo
Yeah, nice one! Very customized flags required.
I was more talking about typical backend services, like Ceph or, say, a Riak or Postgres cluster.
- emmelaich 9y agoYou can get source rpms for say Centos or Scientific Linux and maintain your own set of patches and flags. Minimise your deviation from the stable stuff that everyone else is using.
- cies 9y agoWhich I expect is more common in super computers. But still, maybe there is some stuff with special processors that needs all to be compiled specifically with support for that type of thing, in order to make proper use of the underlying machine.