From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server installation
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:29:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106101629.24236.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2593608.Y5NAE0QtXL@eve>
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:15 on Friday 10 June 2011, Joost Roeleveld
did opine thusly:
> On Friday 10 June 2011 12:13:22 Perenaster wrote:
> > Hey,
> > I dont't know if this is the right list I'm writing to but I want to use
> > Gentoo as server. My aim is a small as possible installation of an OS
> > with only the modules I want. So I thought Gentoo might be the OS of
> > choice. Is it suitable for an server or should I look for an other
> > distro?
> > Is there anything in particular that I have to mention at the
> > installation? Thanks in advance,
> > Tom
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Gentoo is quite usable as a Server. I use it as such myself.
Funny think about Gentoo is that it can save you a few MB of disk space by
removing things you don't need.
But it consumes 3GB of disk space to do it.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-10 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 10:13 [gentoo-user] Gentoo server installation Perenaster
2011-06-10 12:11 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-06-10 13:15 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-06-10 14:29 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-06-10 14:38 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-06-16 13:24 ` Perenaster
2011-06-10 14:03 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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