On Jan 20, 2008 11:36 AM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Chuck wrote: > > I am mainly using FC8 as a LAMP development platform and also a > > subversion repository. > > > > Mainly these packages are being used: > > db-4x > > mysql 5.x > > perl > > apache 2.2 (custom rolled) > > PHP 5.x (custom rolled) > > libneon > > apr (custom rolled) > > apr-util (custom rolled) > > autoconf > > libtool > > sqlite (custom rolled) > > openssl (custom rolled) > > > > Based on these packages can I rely on FC8 as a platform? I was using > > RHEL5 but not having updates was getting frustrating and paying a > > subscription fee for bug fixes doesn't sit well with me. > > > Use CentOS if you don't like to pay for a rhel subscription fee. > The lifespan of Fedora is really too short for server needs. > What updates were you not having that were frustrating? RHEL/CentOS are > not going to have the bleeding edge updates because those have a higher > chance of breaking things. > So CentOS is just the RHEL series re-branded? (no tinkering of packages and etc...) I don't need bleeding edge updates but subversion has some picky depedencies and I couldn't get all of them to compile cleanly on RHEL 4 and I ran into other misc issues on RHEL 5 but couldn't get the updates I needed to fix 2 known bugs I ran into. (forget what they were now, one was db4 related and one was related to the mysql client) There is also a bug in openssl related to having a custom installed version under /usr/local and the default rpm installed version. Unfortunately for me I need both. (for some proprietary software I am also running) I also need PHP to support Oracle so pretty much end up having to build most things from source. Thanks for the info/ /cc
