[LUNI] What distro are you using?

[Ramin K]

William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> I'm really curious - do you see any big performance hit switching to
> Ubuntu? The whole reason to run Gentoo seems to be trying to squeeze
> extra performance out of the hardware, which is an argument I've never
> bought. What's been your experience?

	Like Trev said Gentoo doesn't really have a noticeable increase in 
speed and any back in the day was probably because it was building 
around your actual arch instead of i386. Most distros are not doing at 
least i686 and with the move to x86_64 the whole thing is moot.
	I saw a bit better speed on the server side because Gentoo made it easy 
to go to nptl with glibc, the early 2.6 kernels weren't great and 
updating sooner was almost always better, and being about to switch to 
Mysql 4.1 (vastly superior to 4.0), etc. The Mysql update was nice in my 
case because you can force PHP to be built without Mysql libs and force 
Postfix to have them. That way when you update from 4.0 to 4.1 you have 
some idea of how many packages you're going to affect and can rebuild 
them to use the new rather than trying to update half your system.
	There are of course issues with Gentoo like any distro and I've never 
run it as a desktop. On the server I find the trade offs in greater 
flexibility over a bit less (in my experience) stability well worth it.

Ramin