On 02/20/2014 12:53 AM, Facundo Curti wrote: > I think a "more stable" distro is better for production. My choice is > debian. I think you cant find nothing more stable that debian... > > >Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os where > the admin knows each and every aspect of the os. > > This is true, but gentoo is a little unstable to use on production. > The system must be on 365 days/year. ¿and when you need to update the > system? This will use all the processor and the system will be > overloaded. This means users can't use the system when this is updating... > the advantage of clustering servers though is you can take one out and update it. if you use a distributed compliation [1] and tell portage to keep the binaries [2] you can take a few out and do them together, then the remainder do not require compilation as the compile has been done. > I think the best for a server is debian. I didn't try red hat but I > see this like a commercial distro :/ Any way, red hat is very used as > server. And if you choice to pay, you will have official support > (Other wise, you are alone :/) > many of the cluster tools and services are actually written by redhat so there is no surprise that there is much better integration. however i would much rather put gentoo in a public facing domain where you need the latest security patches always. getting clustering to work with gentoo can be a bit of a pain if you are just feeling your way the big question really is what is the purpose of your cluster ? shared database load? load balanced web servers? distributed file system? distributed multi system multi cpu calculations? distributed fast memory cache ? each thing has a different set of tools and management thereof. > P.D: I'm sorry if my english is not perfect, i speak spanish > > > 2014-02-19 21:36 GMT-03:00 Franklin Wang >: > > Maybe it's intresting, although I prefer to use red hat, suse or > ubuntu in datacenter as Google. Slackware servers're not very > poppular here > > On 2014年02月20日 08:14, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> >> On 20 Feb 2014 05:12, "Franklin Wang" > > wrote: >> > >> > and what about slackware for server? >> > >> > >> > -------- Original Message -------- >> > Subject: >> > How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment? >> > Date: >> > Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:41:28 +0800 >> > From: >> > Franklin Wang > >> > To: >> > gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org >> , >> gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org >> >> > >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you >> tell me >> > the experience about them? Thanks. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Franklin Wang >> > >> > >> > >> >> Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os >> where the admin knows each and every aspect of the os. Security >> wise, there are no unwanted or unused stuff, so lesser bugs to >> deal with. >> >> Clustering, well, you can do that using glusterfs >> > > -- > skype:touch21st, Gtalk:touch21st, Yahoo/MSN:franklinwang36@yahoo.com , > Xing/Linkedin:Franklin Wang > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4