[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Joe Fitzsimons wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 09:54, nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>>It would be insane to run it on a production server, particularly
>>>>>if you've been messing with flags. You never know when that'll
>>>>>come back to bite you in the ass.
>>>>
>>>>that is rubbish
>>>
>>>Another well-reasoned rebuttal from the Gentoo crowd.  You really
>>>aren't doing your cause any favours, you know...
>>>
>>>     Colm
>>
>>isn't that a bit holier than thou,
>>I havnt seen much to back up your arguments.
> 
> 
> Ok, well my reasoning is this. In Gentoo you generally compile everything, and 
> different people compile things differently (different processors etc.), even 
> if they are necessarily messing with flags. The resulting binary you have on 
> your pc is going to be different from what I would have on mine, which in 
> turn would be different from what I would have running on our cluster, etc. 
> As such none of these get anywhere near the testing that a standard binary 
> does. 

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