On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Manuel Reimer Manuel.Reimer@gmx.de wrote:
I'm searching for a distribution for several *months* now and so far I couldn't find something that fits my needs...
CentOS seems to be pretty well done, but the amount of packages that is delivered with it definetly doesn't fit all needs. Today, I tried to set up a server with CentOS (VMWare server). Worked pretty well, but for installing the NTFS driver, I had to import the rpmforge repository...
Not sure why you *need* NTFS support to use/run VMWare Server...?
For NTFS support, I routinely download the latest CentOS release kernel sources and build it in, but you can also just build the module and use dkms to keep it up to date.
As for the availability of packages, well, some things come with a distribution and others don't. E.g., I like to use Seamonkey (instead of Firefox or other options), but I don't think it comes with any distribution, so I get it and install it separately. You just have to decide which is more important - the distro you like best, or the explosion of packages you want.
mhr