I learned more from using gentoo for a couple of years than all the many years of using other distros. There are many things to configure and tinker with when using gentoo that make it a lot of fun to use and a good learning experience. Absolutely not. For those business operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and OS X from Apple, they are also completed, but they are made to be easy to install and config.
For those Linux distributions like Debian including Ubuntu, Mint, etc. Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution. If a new version of software in the Arch repositories is released, Arch users get the new versions before other users most of the time.
Everything is fresh and cutting edge in the rolling release model. Arch technically did better by a hair, but not outside the scope of random fluctuations. The more things you add the slower it will get. Arch Linux may seem stiff from the outside but it is a completely flexible distro. First, it lets you decide which modules to use in your OS when installing it and it has the Wiki to guide you.
Arch Anywhere was a distribution aimed at bringing Arch Linux to the masses. Due to a trademark infringement, Arch Anywhere has been completely rebranded to Anarchy Linux. The Arch philosophy makes it very clear that things will sometimes break. You should make backups often. Arch users barely go beyond their default repos, since the AUR is huge.
Might be a stretch of the term Linux distribution… but have you ever tried installing an operating system image on a smartphone? All this in combination with the active Arch Linux community and the detailed documentation in the official wiki makes it a great choice for developers in my opinion.
Linux tends to contain the best suite of low-level tools like sed, grep, awk piping, and so on. Tools like these are used by programmers to create things like command-line tools, etc. On the other hand, if it's for a professional project where you need something that just works and can't spend too much time on it, something else might be a better choice.
I used Gentoo for about two years and I dropped it in favor of Ubuntu, mainly because of the poorly written ebuilds. If you say you want a server, they you can try Gentoo, especially if you have experience with Linux. For desktop or if you're not so experienced, stick with Ubuntu. Gentoo is a great option because you will be able to really control what's going on.
Certainly, you can do that with every distribution, but Gentoo's tools make it painless. Besides, hardening the distro and making it secure it also quite painless. I might start with Ubuntu, if it's your first time. Gentoo is a perfectly respectable mainstream distro though, as are SuSe, and Fedora. I really like Gentoo because I do enjoy compiling my own software. I enjoy having the control over what features are compiled in and for your certain systems there are compiler flags that can have an appreciable effect on performance.
It all comes down to preference. I like having a Gentoo level of control over my system. You might not. Gentoo has nice docs, and when you know what your are doing, looks like it can be very nifty. But since you usually want a server to work, I'd stick to something you are more comfortable with, perhaps Ubuntu Server?
If you're planning on hosting any sort of shell environment on there a shell environment beyond web hosting and such, that is then don't go with Gentoo. USE flags make being a non-root user on a Gentoo system a pain; trust me, I know from experience. But if you just plan on hosting a website and maybe a few other servers, Gentoo should be fine. Actually, if you're only hosting sites off of it I advise you to pick Gentoo. Don't get me wrong, I love Gentoo and run it myself as my server and desktop.
You mentioned "my first server". Based on that statement alone, I would direct you to go with an easy to use OS first, and when you get comfortable with it, then take the Gentoo plunge. Gentoo is fantastic when you are ready to really learn Linux. I agree with the consensus here But I'll echo the fact that Gentoo is a great distro to force you to learn the in's and out's of how Linux works.
Now to my point. Since no one has mentioned this yet so I'll add this to the list of why I moved away from Gentoo for Production Server use. I started out with Gentoo pretty early on back in and ran it for years on desktops and servers before deciding to move to Ubuntu and CentOS. This is the main issue I had with Gentoo. Their answer to security updates is to bump you to the newest upstream version of the project. This is not always a good solution in a production environment.
Especially if the new version has known issues which prevent you from being able to update. As a result you may find yourself in a situation where your server is vulnerable to a known exploit which you can't fix easily. Sure you could alway write your own ebuild for a patched version of the old version but that's not really an ideal situation either. Now I do miss some of the control you had with Gentoo but at the end of the day, for me, that control isn't worth the time and effort required.
I won't repeat what has been said already all excellent points by the way and I'll just add this - gentoo is a good system for test server. It allows you to easily customize your system in exactly the way you want and compile times are not an issue. I would suggest Ubuntu for now for it's simplicity It's a great OS and you'll learn a ton. One thing that people always mention about Gentoo is the performance and flexibility that you supposedly get from compiling your own software.
This is more a perk of compiling software from scratch and not necessarily a perk of Gentoo. In fact, Portage, Gentoo's package management software is more than capable of installing pre-compiled binary packages. It's just that there really aren't any pre-compiled binaries in Gentoo's official package repository.
For instance, Sabayon is a Linux distro that is based off of Gentoo which has a large pre-compiled repository which you can install using it's custom package manager which still uses Portage as a backend , but it probably isn't the best choice for a server. The point is that Portage is extremely flexible and allows you to very seamlessly install packages from source including Git repos and you can set it up to use pre-compiled packages as well.
However, this would require you to find a good source for the packages since there are only a couple in the Portage repository by default , read the documentation to configure it, etc. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Is Gentoo worth the compile? I've only tried RH. I've seen ubuntu being used, means I've not used nor installed it. However work mates praise it because it's fast to install. Read Gentoo documentation. Gentoo wiki howto guides. Gentoo doesnt force you to do or use anything. You must choose how you use Gentoo.
Search the forum for popular applications. That should get you going. Check out the forums. Use the forum search function. Often when you have some problem there's allready a solution in the forums. What applications you use normally? Look for similar apps in the gentoo package database or read about them in the forum.
What do you want to do with gentoo? And welcome to Gentoo! There's just a longer delivery time for impossible projects. Posted: Wed Sep 20, pm Post subject: Re: is anything as fast as gentoo? Paapaa wrote:. What do you mean by fast? Gentoo might boot faster but the speed of normal usage should be very similar.
They use the same kernel, the same programs trust me, optilimizations mean shit in most cases , the same drivers etc.
There should be no big speed differences at all. Maybe it is something I could configure in other distobutions to make them go that fast, I don't know. But without messing with them, they are much slower. I don't really want a distro that I have to mess with. Icer wrote:. Posted: Thu Sep 21, am Post subject: Re: is anything as fast as gentoo?
Sunnz Guru Joined: 18 Jun Posts: Posted: Thu Sep 21, am Post subject:. The following distros I haven't tried, but I have heard people switched to them from Gentoo simply because they don't like mess and compile things, I think they would suit you.
I haven't tried them, because, well, I am the exact person who like to mess with things! Debian, this is what Ubuntu was based upon. Installation is somewhat like Gentoo but easier or so I heard, haven't tried myself remember?
It definately doesn't need to compile things like Gentoo. Arch, you said you were gotta to try it, right?
Go for it!
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