[Gllug] Red hat 8 subscription

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Thu May 8 05:41:27 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Martin A. Brooks announce to the hordes:
> 
> At 23:11 03/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >You don't if you want the worlds most advanced package management system
> >change to Gentoo ;P
> 
> Gentoo is for people who have nothing better to do with their computers 
> than watch them compile stuff. :)
> 
> Gentoo is fine for a home desktop, but it's not practical when you have 
> more than about 3 servers to maintain.  I have 170.

But if all 170 are the same hardware (or even a few "groups" of them are the
same hardware) then you don't need to compile for every single one...
Use just compile on one and NFS/SMB/FTP it across.

You could even have one machine as a "compile server" and the others all
update from that.


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