From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QteZ6-0004QC-Ma for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:45:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B926221C07F; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0025921C039 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.148] (helo=smtp16.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QteXo-0000zM-BY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:44:24 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp16.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QteXn-0005jm-Jg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:44:23 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6139CF6 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27g5n2utMdq4 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48E9970E for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:44:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4561713.Q5X3SpEkrt@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201108170959.50645.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201108170959.50645.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QteXn-0005jm-Jg X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.883, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 1.02, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.99) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f47be55e95047a59d5a9deeddd9420bc 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. -- Joost