Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote:
> > How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use?
> > For
> > server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup
> > or use case?
> 
> Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation sometimes
> does; at other times it's experimenting with other distributions.
> 
> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's
> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its
> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit chroot set up as
> an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages available
> for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though.
> 
> The Atom serves web, time, squid proxy, dns, cups and mysql to the LAN. It
> runs http-replicator and rsyncd to keep a local portage tree for the other
> boxes. I'd like it to serve mail too, but I've never managed to set that up.

Putting email on the Atom using IMAP might not be the best option. IMAP can be 
quite heavy on resources on the server-side.

I use a quad-core AMD for my server.

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Joost