Best Distro

[Marco Ramos]

Hi,

> Jeff Sullivan wrote:
> 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.

> 
> Thanks for the reply!!
> 
> 
> Marco Ramos wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> well, according with the official stats 
>> (http://www.nagios.org/userprofiles/quickstats.php) RedHat is the most 
>> popular distro among Nagios users, with 30%. I must say I'm one of the 
>> 18% of Debian users :) I run a Nagios server on a Debian box  for 
>> almost 4 years and I'v never had a single problem regarding the distro.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Marco Ramos
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Sullivan" <iceman at 30below.com>
>> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:07 PM
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Best Distro
>>
>>
>>> Hello!!
>>>
>>> I have a Nagios box that croaked and I am in the process of building
>>> another.
>>>
>>> The dead critter was based on Debian; It worked well, but I was
>>> wondering what distro is Nagios the most @home with?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
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> 
>

HTH,
Marco Ramos

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