Fedora as a webserver

[Luke -Jr]

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Jonathan Otsuka wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Luke -Jr wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 October 2007, David Nicol wrote:
> >>> On 10/27/07, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> >>>> Why anyone would use Fedora for anything, let alone a server, has
> >>>> always confused me.
> >>
> >> or why anyone would use Gentoo when they could use BSD
> >
> > Gentoo supports BSD ;)
>
> Whoever uses Gentoo tools on BSD is just not smart (ports/packages
> have been around a lot longer than Gentoo has). 

Every package builder/manager has its strengths and weaknesses. Whether 
someone is better off with ports or portage is dependent on what they want to 
do with it.

> If they didn't like the way the current package manager why not try to
> improve upon it and not replace it. I do like writing my own software, but
> at times rewriting/porting seems wasteful and this is one of them.

Sometimes the original architecture just isn't flexible enough.