Best Distro

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 17/05/07 05:39 PM, Marco Ramos wrote:
> 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.

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.

Thomas

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