On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 12:13:06PM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote: > after finding out you will have to upgrade to a new version of fedora > every 3 months, I question my decision on using fedora. You won't have to. > i am seriously considering ol' faithful slackware for the server since > it still has apache 1.3... and a few apps i want to use require 1.3. But that's another issue, and I'd agree: Fedora probably isn't the best choice if this is what you need. > just wanted to know, has anyone else had such problems when compiling > from source on rpm based distributions and are you (like me) > considering your options since fc1 is at the end of the road? Your problem isn't really compiling from source -- it's with trying to integrate an older version of a package into a distro where the newer package is nicely integrated with others. > it's been a fun ride, i may be back next week - who knows... but i > want to try other distros and get your view on this 3 month stratigy > of RH's fedora core distro's? <http://www.fedoralegacy.org/> -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
