Re: [Sheflug] A New Linux Box

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 27 October 2008 08:57:07 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> If Tom is really going to learn Linux and its administration, he
> should consider Gentoo Linux, in which everything is built on the
> machine from source. If he does that, I think 4 - 8 GB will be
> useful. I have 4 GB on this box, and that's enough to compile any
> package, I think, except Open Office - which I assume won't be
> installed on a server.

Yes.  But, even seasoned system administrators and some programmers 
can't work out what to do with Gentoo even after five years of using 
anything else :)

> (Aside: there is a trick to enable vast package compilations:
> define /tmp as tmpfs and set its size big enough for the
> compilations, 6 GB in my case, and create plenty of swap for it to
> roll out into on those rare occasions when it's needed. This is my
> fstab line:
> tmpfs           /tmp                tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,size=6g   
> 0 0 )

Yes.  Sounds a bit like OpenBSD/NetBSD/UNIX in general.

-- 
Richard

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