[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Simon Kenyon]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 14:16, you wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2005, at 15:20, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > i have used to as a production server
>
> What?
>
> > as for the evaluation process:
> > 24 years using unix and over 10 using linux (sls, slackware, red
> > hat, suse, debian and gentoo)
>
> That's not an evaluation process.  That's a list of distributions.
>
> Why did you pick Gentoo for a production server?  Would you pick it
> if you had 10 servers to run?  100?
>
>      Colm

after using slackware for about 2 years, red hat for about another 2, suse for 
3'ish, debian for 2 and gentoo for 2 - in my opinion, that *is* an evaluation 
process
slackware had no realistic upgrade process
red hat was so non-standard (coming from a UNIX background)
suse was fine, but a bit dated
debian was good at first, but trying to stay current became very difficult 
when all the lockstep'ed dependencies
which led me to gentoo (for now)

i think i've made my position very clear
i would run gentoo on any number of machines (i only have about a dozen)
if they were all the same arch (in particular CPU but also m/b) it would be a 
no-brainer. with the set of the Epia-m9000's that i have i build on one and 
install the binaries on the other two (using distcc and portage to do it all 
pretty automagically)

regards
-- 
simon