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I started my Linux life with Gentoo, rc4. Stage1 tarballs. Good times, many things learned. I've been using Gentoo on the server and every sync I pray that som

I started my Linux life with Gentoo, rc4. Stage1 tarballs. Good times, many things learned. I've been using Gentoo on the server and every sync I pray that something doesn't change so that I'll have to spend a day dealing with the broken crap of package manager. Otoh my provider increased the server cost by 10 eur/ month so I'm recompiling packages just to drive up its energy cost, previously I did only necessary updates, now I'm running wild with compling weekly. Freaking Hetzner. 13 year old hardware renting for full price. Anyhow I wouldn't do Gentoo on the server again, but I'm stuck with it now, as it pretty much runs everything, mail, git, all kinds of databases, over 50 domains... If cloud wasn't so expensive compared I would've had a vps for each project. But migrating to cloud would cost 4 times as much and I'd have way less storage. Anyhow I digress, one of those days ... I'll habe to unweed my system so that depclean doesn't remove half the installed packages.

MuffinFlavored 4y ago
> I've been using Gentoo on the server I don't know what "the server" is referring to but this almost feels irresponsible. If it is your personal server that's great but I can't remember a time I've been in a position professionally (where time is a resource/of the essence/being billed/we're up against a clock for a deadline) where tinkering at the distribution configuration level was ever a good idea.
- seiferteric 4y ago
  Actually about 11-12 years ago I worked on a server in our validation lab, I think it was a video encoder for iptv and found that it used gentoo. They didn't compile on the server itself of course, but leveraged the flexible build system to apply patches etc and I assume built binaries in a repo somewhere where it could pull updates from.
- lakomen 4y ago
  It was part of a trio that was interconnected via ipsec. The small cluster ran a mongodb replicaset and some Go backends and AngularJS frontends. I didn't really need them and I got rid of 2 servers. It's not irresponsible, I'm not a scrub and I won't be indirectly insulted.

MuffinFlavored 4y ago

> I've been using Gentoo on the server I don't know what "the server" is referring to but this almost feels irresponsible. If it is your personal server that's great but I can't remember a time I've been in a position professionally (where time is a resource/of the essence/being billed/we're up against a clock for a deadline) where tinkering at the distribution configuration level was ever a good idea.

seiferteric 4y ago
Actually about 11-12 years ago I worked on a server in our validation lab, I think it was a video encoder for iptv and found that it used gentoo. They didn't compile on the server itself of course, but leveraged the flexible build system to apply patches etc and I assume built binaries in a repo somewhere where it could pull updates from.
lakomen 4y ago
It was part of a trio that was interconnected via ipsec. The small cluster ran a mongodb replicaset and some Go backends and AngularJS frontends. I didn't really need them and I got rid of 2 servers. It's not irresponsible, I'm not a scrub and I won't be indirectly insulted.