Best Distro

[Morris, Patrick]

> >> 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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