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 Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:05 pm Post subject: Which Profile For A Server |
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Basically it will be used for storage (backups), will have Luxrender node on it (console), will require wine for another render node app, and will have nginx/mariadb/php-fpm.
So I know I will need a light weight desktop, so was thinking openbox, but do I need to use the desktop profile if I am only going to use the desktop sparsely ?
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If you want a graphical system on your server i recomment to use the profile for desktop.
you get all the use flags set correctly from the beginning.
if you use a light weight desktop like openbox or xfce you don't need select desktop/gnome or desktop/kde
and install much bloat.
if you want to store backups and calculate rendering think of having a separate partitions for home and backup storage. |
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all the backups are on separate drives, after a bit of googling I went with the default profile and just put all the use flags I would require into package.use, seems to be going okay for now 
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| dambacher wrote: | If you want a graphical system on your server i recomment to use the profile for desktop.
you get all the use flags set correctly from the beginning.
if you use a light weight desktop like openbox or xfce you don't need select desktop/gnome or desktop/kde
and install much bloat.
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What if it's a server, which serves several dumb X-terminals (aka "application server") and some classic services (nntp, mail, database, dhcp and so on) to some other full featured clients (including windows)?
I use xfce as wm for the thin clients and applications from both, gnome and kde, depending on taste Up until now, i always was happy with the default profile, no decision to use either gnome or kde, and no "classic" desktop use ....
Now i'm thinking of switching to systemd .... but there is no systemd-only profile, exept explicit desktop-profiles, which are designed for kde _xor_ gnome. Any Ideas?
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In the end I kept it as Profile 1 - and put X as a useflag in make.conf, I am using LXDE in vnc - and i just put the flags i need for certain apps in package.use - seems to be working okay for me for now, won't be long before i break something or a dev breaks it for me 
As for systemd - the only profiles for that seem to be for gnome and kde, Im not touching that till i need to :p
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