I am trying to build a new dedicated MySQL box on a Sun x2200 server. I have been going through Operating Systems like mad. Solaris, OpenSolaris, Debian, Gentoo. Amazingly Gentoo so far has been the easiest to get everything setup and working properly. Even better everything is compiled and optimized for my hardware specifically.
I never thought it would be this difficult though. I really like my Sun hardware and love ZFS and the clustering capabilities of Solaris. Oh well, can’t win them all I guess. I am happy with Gentoo though and the performance is more than acceptable.