On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> If you want something done right (or done so wrong that it looks right > to you) do it yourself. ;-) Roll your own distribution.
Try Gentoo. I have migrated everything to it. I have it running on Dell PowerEdge's & Sun Sparc boxes _in_ an ISP environment.
Super easy to keep up with their portage system and it let's _you_ choose what to install... You _have_ to compile your own kernel before booting to the box. I was a RH freak, but this has turned my head when I was looking for someone actively supporting Spark architecture...
Gentoo motto, if it moves, compile it <G> However, this has not been an issue.
Thats almost what I do - however, I use Debian to bootstrap it. Get a minimal system going, then manually install stuff like a custom compiled kernel, sendmail, mimedefang, apache, mysql, etc. but keep using Debian for the back-end stuff to keep things like ssh patched, etc.
It stems from admining various different system (Solaris, SunOs, H-PUX, etc) where I wanted the config files in a common place rather than where the vendor wanted to put them... These days I'm almost entirely Debian based, but still have the odd Solaris and RH box to look after...
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