On 8/13/05, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > I want to do mostly scientific work plus email on a GNU/Linux server. > Apparently all the major distros have 64-bit versions available, which > helps. Now I'm trying to decide which distro will be best for my uses. > I am not sure about the other distros but Gentoo is primarily geared toward the Linux desktop market. That is not to say it does not make a great server (I use one at home for personal uses and it has run for years with no problem) but for a high availibility production environment I would probably be hesitant to go that route, probably favoring, instead, a well vetted distro like SuSE or Redhat/Fedora. -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)