Best Distro
Morris, Patrick
patrick.morris at hp.com
Fri May 18 07:50:38 CEST 2007
> >> The only thing that I did not like was Debiens versioning.
> >>
> >> I is hard to run the latest and greatest Nagios, etc when
> the distro
> >> does not want to let you.
> >>
> >> If sticking with Deb, would you suggest doing a manual
> >> install/compile of apache, mysql, nagios, etc?
> >
> > Usually, I only use apt-get (or yum/rpm on RedHat) to
> install libraries and all that kind of stuff.. When it comes
> to install application like Apache or Nagios, I prefer to
> compile them myself so that I've the power to (de)select
> everything I want.
>
> For those that don't want their package management software
> to get in the way I suggest Slackware. You get the bare
> minimum, and then you can do whatever you want with it :)
>
> What I don't like about many distros is that they try to
> support everything and in the end it get bloated no matter
> what you really need.
> You can do everything you want with Slackware but you'll have
> to do it yourself. On the good side you end up with a very
> lean and fast OS no matter what you're doing with it.
This would be why I dread seeing the "What OS/distro should I use?"
question pop up... This has gone so far beyond anything remotely
Nagios-related it's getting ridiculous.
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