I have always disliked RedHat for putting this where they (not the community)
think they should be. I still use them though. It has less of an impact for me
as I compile most of the software that I use anyways (Apache, OpenSSL, IMAP,
etc). As such I end up putting everuthing back where I want it to be.
Come to think about it the only think that I really use out of the box for
RedHat is DNS and Samba. I'm also looking around though because I've switched
to Linux to get away from paying money and RedHat seemed a good choice until
they decided to join the ranks of Microsoft.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 2/11/2004 12:30 PM
To: Damon Cassell
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] What's your favorite linux distro for SA?
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Damon Cassell wrote:
> I've had excellent results with all versions of Red Hat, 7.3 through
> 9.0. With Red Hat's freely distributed versions fading into history, I
> recently moved a customer of mine to Mandrake 9.2, and had great
results
> there, too. In all cases I always use Postfix as the MTA, and build it
> and SpamAssassin from source, so I am not worried about the
shortcomings
> of RPM, as others seem to be. I've messed with Gentoo but found it
> simply too time consuming to configure the way I want it.
After the nightmares RH9 has given me over the past couple of months,
I'll
never use another RH product again. I really dislike the random
locations
the RH engineers put various unimportant libraries like kerbereos. I
also
dislike how they statically linked just about everything to everything
else. It's a bloody nightmare. I'm preparing to give Gentoo a try.
I've
heard good things.
My $.02 before taxes,
Justin
