[Sussex] My First Server...

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Paul Graydon <paul at paulgraydon.co.uk>:

> Now comes the fun part... Distro choosing for it.  I'm a Gentoo fan by
> preference mainly because its the only distro I've not experienced
> major hassles with getting specific stuff done on; but whilst the
> bandwidth would be great for all the necessary source downloading, I
> just can't think it would be justified on a server, nor do I want to
> spend that long installing Gentoo whilst stuck inside one of our
> Docklands data centres (too much noise).

Paul,

Don't forget that the Gentoo setup process can be done via ssh (one of  
my reasons for choosing it!) and that you've got a load of different  
pre-tuned kernel sources (not binaries) to work with to tweak your  
server.

HTH,

Matt

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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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