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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
