I’ve written shortly on this before. I like yum; I love apt-get; I prefer not to use them for MySQL installations. I consider a binary tarball to be the best MySQL installation format (source installations being a different case altogether).
Why?
I use yum and apt-get whenever I can and for almost all needs (sometimes preferring CPAN [...]
Revision 76 of mycheckpoint comes with quite a few improvements, including:
OS monitoring (CPU, load average, memory)
Auto-deploy
Improved charting
Brief HTML reports
24/7 charts
OS Monitoring
When monitoring the local machine, mycheckpoint now monitors CPU utilization, load average, memory and swap space.
This only applies to the Linux operating system; there is currently no plan to work this out for other operating [...]
Installing a single MySQL instance on a linux machine is a very simple operation. It may be as simple as:
apt-get install mysql-server
But you cannot use this method to install another MySQL instance. Moreover, if you try to manually install another instance, you may find that some collisions occur.
For example, when trying to install two 5.0 [...]