OT: Gentoo, Red Hat, etc. (was Re: [Mimedefang] Latest MIME-Tools)

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Justin wrote:

> I almost never use any outward facing daemons that aren't compiled from
> source.  I compile just about everything from source if given the
> opportunity.

In that case, use the latest PostgreSQL 7.4.x.  It's much better than
the 7.3.x series (faster, and better at reclaiming space during a VACUUM.)

> Well, anything is better than RH9.  This is the 4th RH9 box I've set up in
> as many months and I'm left wondering if the RH engineers actually woke up
> in the morning and thought to themselves "Where can we randomly put
> libraries today and how many oddball things can we statically link to
> them?"

Fedora Core 1's actually not too bad.  I have Gentoo on a laptop, but
compiling *everything* from source pretty soon gets tiresome.

Regards,

David.