You use Gentoo as Server, Desktop or Both?

Retriever II · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 2:30 am Post subject:

I use Gentoo as a desktop machine, and I run apache and ftp for personal use.

AgenT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 280

shash · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 220 Location: India

One machine, that acts as my favourite desktop, and my internal Samba and NAT server. I'll be installing on another machine (probably) soon.

It's certainly made life easier and fun to have a system that doesn't come with about 10239013089 features that I don't want and will never use, and that forces me to learn something about everything that I do with it, so that I don't make silly mistakes.

mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

Gentoo on the desktop and servers.

Desktop use:

OpenOffice 1.1, XMMS, Mozilla, Mozilla mail because of it's awesome spamfilter, Pan, Grip, Eterm, XQF(Urban Terror and True Combat), Savage, NWN, Gnucash, TeamSpeak and gdesklets.

Server use:

Apache 2 w/ mod_php, exim or postfix, sshd, ntop, and proftpd. One of my servers runs TeamSpeak and will end up a media server once tv-out support works on my PVR350 WinTV card.

Nicom · Guru Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 380

Desktop only here, with ocassional FTP hosting to transfer files. I may host my website on it too If I find it doesn't lag thing too much(but probably not, I put high demands on my desktop use and every performance counts.

thrasher6670 · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:17 pm Post subject:

im running 2 desktops and 1 server

the server runs great with gentoo, no fluff: USE="apache2 emacs ethereal samba -3dnow -cups -foomaticdb -kde -gnome -opengl -qt -X -gtk -xml2 -xv -mmx"

makes for quick server, right now im running a gentoo website on it
http://gps.linux-lamer.com

as for the desktop, its great, i love that NWN will run native, im never going back to windows.
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kip · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 71 Location: germany

2 server
1 notebook
2 desktops

... what shall i do? i love gentoo

daha · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Helsinki/EU

desktop is using gentoo, but router isint

thomasando · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 94

Desktop running Gentoo, server running Gentoo (samba, openssh, apache2), building Gentoo on my laptop as I write this, firewall runs [url="http://www.smoothwall.org"]smoothwal[/url], and my other 2 pc's run windows, but 1 will be being converted shortly. the other one runs it out of necessity for the moment, until i can get the apps on it to wine properly

someguy · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 8:43 am Post subject:

both

and im verry happy with that i have one gaming machine and my apache server wich performs EXCELLENT (its only a celeron 500 too has 512 mbs of ram and does fileserving) tommoro i should be getting a pentium 3 900 mhz machine

and imma be usin that for my lans other gaming machine so my friends can come over and quake with me :-D

ROCK ON GENTOO!
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wysiib · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 9:07 am Post subject:

just on 2 desktops.

just switched the server back to debian woody
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Fragbeestje · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Belgium

Athlon 2800xp in a Shuttle SN45G is my desktop, for playing enemy-territory and allround desktop purposes.

Athlon 1600xp is both server and desktop.
Runs as a gameserver, and can be booted into desktop mode also ( in case someone drops by without his gaming pc

). Desktop mode is also used for testing purposes.

VIA Epia Nehemiah 1 Ghz, only runs as server.
Web-, FTP-, database-, backup server.
Currently also runs an Enemy-Territory server with shrubmod for testing.

Nermal · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 259 Location: UK

I use it as my main desktop machine, my laptop and my server.

Main desktop machine and laptop run unstable tree of gentoo, server runs the stable tree

joshdr77 · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 180

im running gentoo as my desktop with intermitted use of windows xp, i like win syntax for coding and office xp for work...but everything personal related, eg browsing, or watching tv, or chaatting - gentoo is my choice.

i also run gentoo on my server which acts as a router, file-server samba3, webserver apache2, portage server (internal only) to save me from emerge syncing multiable times, dhcp and a whole host of other things

so · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 115 Location: Roma

I use Gentoo as my desktop
I have installed mplayer, licq, aim, kvirc, pan, mozilla firebird, xmms, lopster, openoffice and kmail
and it's enough for me
I like Gentoo very much and Gentoo likes me :wink:

percking · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 90

I run gentoo on a server (web+mail for family and friends)
on laptop (used all the time as my college requires a laptop)
and just the last couple of weeks, on my "jukebox" a p2 300 with 64 mb of ram that i run mp3blaster on that lives in my tv cabinet

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btornado · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Indiana

I run Gentoo on my desktop and laptop, and Red Hat on my server.

jaska · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject:

Desktop, openbsd on gateway.

Wolfpack98 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 61 Location: USA

I'm running a mixed network at home..

I'm running 2 gentoo servers (One on a Dell PowerEdge 4200) which host a variety of things.

Kisargi (the Dell PowerEdge) runs Apache, MySQL, Mod_php, php4, ssl, sasl, postfix (it's a virtual mailhost system and webserver). It probably will eventually get samba loaded as well as VPN services for my biz.

The other box is named highwind, and will be hosting a FTP server and IRC Server for the FleetChat IRC Network. it's an old PII 266, so I can use it for whatever I need it to

I have Gentoo on my laptop, which I use predominantly for most of my stuff, except for webdevelopment (I use Dreamweaver) and gaming. Most of my games won't run in Wine properly (either due to my incompetence or whatever), so I have a WInXP Desktop. Pretty soon, I'm gonna get a Intel Celeron 900Mhz for a Gentoo desktop.. now where's my kvm switch.. *looks around* :twisted:

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supernovus · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:18 pm Post subject: Both

I use it for both.

I have Gentoo on my home machine (which dual boots with Win2k for some unknown reason since I haven't even touched the Win2k drive in months, since I got rid of the scanner) and at work. Both of those are desktops.

I also have Gentoo on my home server, which acts as my router/firewall as well as having SSH, ftp, and personal apache.

I used to use Gentoo on my business server, which did full fledged Web/DNS/Mail hosting, but closed it down due to being too expensive to run (that machine is now my home server as mentioned above).

So far, I'd say Gentoo is the perfect OS for my usage, and can't think of a single place I wouldn't want to use it.
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darkmason · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:59 pm Post subject:

A lappy, desktop and server running apache mysql and php.

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cult hero · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:34 pm Post subject:

Yeah... laptop, desktop, server... and my girlfriend's computer now! The last being the greatest of my achievements.
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NumaSan · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:42 pm Post subject:

I've never used linux as a server, only on the desktop/workstation (3 years now). But just now, I've finished installing gentoo on a server, so this is a first for me!

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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

still running bsd on the server. If i ever redo it, it's getting gentoo.
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