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

[Justin]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, David F. Skoll wrote:

> 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.)

It sounds like it's worth it.  I'll see what I can do about compiling that 
shortly.  I'll see if I can jumpstart the demo process soon too.

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

I've heard some good things about Fedora.  I've also heard it's basically 
RH9 with improvememnts (not a bad thing).  It was proposed that we switch 
to RH Enterprise.  The question I posed back to the person that suggested 
that was when was the last time we actually called RH for tech support.  
Well, after some pondering I finally just told them:  we've never called 
them for tech support cause we've never needed it (or could afford to do 
it "their" way so they'd support our efforts).  Really a good admin should 
be able to support him or herself with the available online resources and 
groups.  That was the end of the RH Enterprise notion.

I'm really looking forward to trying Gentoo on one of my boxes.  All my
boxes are SMP boxes and reasonably fast at that so compile times shouldn't
be too bad.  I'm really looking forward to what could quite possibly be a
much better package manager.  RPM is really quite lame.  If you ever want
to really annoy RPM uninstall the very dated version of Perl and all it's
various modules that come with RH and compile and install the latest
greatest from source.  RPM will never forgive you that one. :)

I'm looking forward to trying Gentoo and trying Can-It Pro.  I can't 
hardly wait until we're ready.

Justin