[plug] UCC friday night meets?

[Senectus -]

Mostly because I really like Gentoo, I want to learn to be good at gentoo 
and i'll be running my own rsync mirror (I hope) on the gateway as well..
I know, I know.. not a good idea to use a firewall for anything other than 
fairewall/router, but I'm a home user.. I'm not risking much..
Also Because Gentoo is a "from source" distro, in theory I'll learn more 
about linux by using it.. and I'd like especially to learn more about linux 
boxes that do routing/firewalling/IPtables etc

Even though the install process is difficult to learn the first time, I've 
never felt so at home with linux until I started using Gentoo.. so for me, 
until I find better, Gentoo is it.

:-) thanks.

Senectus


“I don’t think Bastard goes anywhere near to describing the unmitigated scum 
sucking, bottom feeding toerag that is me. But hey – who knew shit could be 
worth so much…”  - Simon Travaglia BOFH (Could have easily been Darl McBride 
that said it though)


>
>	On another note, why Gentoo for the gateway/router. Seems to be a lot
>of time spend compiling stuff for a machine that will a) be under little
>load and b) need to be kept fairly current with regard to security
>updates. To this end I would recommend Debian Woody (or Sid) or a
>purpose build router distro, such as Smoothwall or LRP.
>
>Regards,
>Adrian

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