OT: Gentoo, Red Hat, etc. (was Re: [Mimedefang] Latest MIME-Tools)
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Mar 22 15:13:45 EST 2004
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.
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