From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 459 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2004 15:09:03 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Mar 2004 15:09:03 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AzGwh-0006WO-4x for arch-gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:09:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 30552 invoked by uid 50004); 5 Mar 2004 15:09:02 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-alpha-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31596 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2004 15:09:02 +0000 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:08:56 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_Guay?= To: Gentoo-Alpha Mailing List Message-id: <001d01c402c3$caa2c640$0200a8c0@whitestar02> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Subject: [gentoo-alpha] Gentoo Alpha questions X-Archives-Salt: 98ed91b8-592c-4fa8-a95e-f851a014b0ab X-Archives-Hash: bffed2abe69f1d1c7fef1c66627d40f4 Hello, I am thinking of moving from Debian to Gentoo on my home server, which is an Alpha XL-366 (xlt milo image). The machine currently runs Apache2, ssh, fetchmail and procmail with spamassassin and clamav to filter unwanted mails, a simple firewall script (iptables, with nat and masquerading for my networked machines, can be found at http://www.asgardsrealm.net/linux/firewall/) and acts as a file server using Samba. I have a few questions to ask of people who have been using Gentoo on Alpha for a while. 1. I heard that the fact that you can compile everything for your machine type, with all the necessary optimisations, makes a nice difference in system speed. How true is it? Can someone with a similar setup to my own comment on that? I'm especially hoping that Perl will see a nice speedup, since I do lots of Perl coding in my free time, and spamassassin is written in Perl too and currently takes about 3-5 seconds per message. 2. Will the transition from Debian to Gentoo be painful? I'm especially worried about getting everything to work the same as it did on Debian as fast as possible. As you can see above, the whole home network depends on this machine... 3. Also, how do you think the transition from apt to portage will be? I'm wondering if it's similar to apt, in the sense that you can download updates (new versions) to currently installed software and install them automatically (compiling as needed, I guess). Thanks in advance, ________________________________________________ Jean-S=E9bastien Guay jean_seb@videotron.ca http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list