On 2009-07-02, Jerry McBride <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> | GHCA recently updated all their computers to run the Gentoo distribution
>> | of the Linux operating system. This video interviews system
>> | administrator Michael Surran, exploring the details as to why the school
>> | switched to Gentoo and how Gentoo is used to improve productivity and
>> | functionality. Of particular interest is the use of distributed compiled
>> | computing (distcc) among the 20 Athlon computers to greatly speed the
>> | software building process. ?
I first began using distcc for updating my eeepc. My network has a
central portage on the most powerful machine and this is shared via NFS
to any machine doing an update. Distcc makes the power of the network
available to any machine doing an update.
Gentoo lends itself well to distributed computing.
> Gentoo! God I love it. It's one of the few distributions that are both a
> learning tool and a wonderful distribution. Gentoo... self hosted from
> source code... pure.
I disagree. *Any* distribution is a learning tool. You learn linux by
using linux.
A *real* linux learning tool is Linux From Scratch. I've built a couple
of linux machines from scratch before moving to Gentoo mainly because of
its package manager (portage).
> All my personal "boxes" and laptops run it. Don't yours?
Not all. I've got a NSLU2 (ARM-B intel xscale processor) that runs
slugOS and I've got a linksys WRT54GL (MIPS broadcom) running openwrt.
All my x86 machines run Gentoo.
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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