usernamebob
January 4th, 2007, 06:37 PM
okay well it's a thought I've been throwing around for awhile now
I'd realy like to go with gentoo on my servers.. use flags can realy hep you use resources more efficiently, and in servers, thats hugely important. however oftentimes gentoo breaks due to having the latest versions and such loaded.. or broken ebuilds.
something I'm currently pondering is making a Gentoo based stable server oriented distro.
my proposal is to begin work on a "gentoo stable server" distro
the main features of it would be :
Highly community run
It's own portage tree, this will be a severly hacked down version of the origional removing most if not all guibased code from the portage tree (and anything that isn't realy server related),also new versions will need to undergo testing by the team looking after the tree before they and taken into the tree, hopefully also with the much much much smaller tree size we'll be able to get stuff error tested at a much faster rate, and be able to be much more on top of broken ebuilds and such
a system allowing users to install from the normal gentoo portage if they should so wish, lets face it.. at some point someone use thing will want something we don't have
A fair straight forward install guide (or Ncurses like installer) that should get you a system compiled and hopefully optomised to your system
Obviously this would be quite a speciality distro. mainly for people who want very secure, very high performance servers.
so yeah.. if your interested in the concept.. or you have someone in your mind who might.. then drop us a line :)
ps we're realy just looking for offers of interest either in the form of "Sounds aswesome" or "hey, I'd love to help with that"
I'd realy like to go with gentoo on my servers.. use flags can realy hep you use resources more efficiently, and in servers, thats hugely important. however oftentimes gentoo breaks due to having the latest versions and such loaded.. or broken ebuilds.
something I'm currently pondering is making a Gentoo based stable server oriented distro.
my proposal is to begin work on a "gentoo stable server" distro
the main features of it would be :
Highly community run
It's own portage tree, this will be a severly hacked down version of the origional removing most if not all guibased code from the portage tree (and anything that isn't realy server related),also new versions will need to undergo testing by the team looking after the tree before they and taken into the tree, hopefully also with the much much much smaller tree size we'll be able to get stuff error tested at a much faster rate, and be able to be much more on top of broken ebuilds and such
a system allowing users to install from the normal gentoo portage if they should so wish, lets face it.. at some point someone use thing will want something we don't have
A fair straight forward install guide (or Ncurses like installer) that should get you a system compiled and hopefully optomised to your system
Obviously this would be quite a speciality distro. mainly for people who want very secure, very high performance servers.
so yeah.. if your interested in the concept.. or you have someone in your mind who might.. then drop us a line :)
ps we're realy just looking for offers of interest either in the form of "Sounds aswesome" or "hey, I'd love to help with that"