8SliceHost 3-Way-Handshake Podcast Episode 8 — over 80% of Slice at SliceHost runs on Debian-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu), verses around 5.5% for Gentoo. RPM-based distributions (CentOS, Fedora, etc) is a bit bigger but simply does not compare with overwhelming domination of Debian-based distributions.
Over the last 3-4 months I have also gradually moved my Gentoo based [...]
Switched From Gentoo to Ubuntu
Compiling with DistCC on low memory VPS
Two months ago I had written an article on tuning GCC parameters for compilation under low-memory VPS, by limiting the maximum memory it can use, which is often useful on user-bean-counter based VPS’s (OpenVZ and non-SLM Virtuozzo). It worked in most cases on my 256Mb VPS at VPSLink, but in some circumstances the packages just [...]
Compiling with GCC on low memory VPS
There is an interesting forum post explaining how you can get Gentoo to emerge essential packages on VPSlink’s basic VPS with only 64Mb of memory! I originally thought it would be impossible, but by mangling GCC’s garbage collection parameters it indeed can be done.
All Linux Distributions Suck, but Gentoo Sucks Less
Have you ever installed packages on Linux that just break everything because of those nasty “undefined symbol” errors? Don’t you just hate dependency hell? This is why Gentoo has always been my choice of Linux distribution. When some library comes with bug fixes, just re-emerge it, and re-build everything that depend on that library to [...]
Use Dropbear SSH to save memory
In this blog post I will be looking at cutting down the memory used by the Secure Shell daemon running on your VPS, by replacing it with a lite-version that does 90% of what OpenSSH can do — Dropbear.