Enterprise Linux Releases and software versions
November 23, 2008 Posted by mitch | linux, redhat | 0 Comments
I'm getting tired of Enterprise Linux Releases... I'm tired of how difficult it makes things. I fully understand why they are locked into specific versions of software, and that maybe I just need to upgrade... but business in my experience doesn't like not using the "Enterprise" versions of software and that the open source tools I need to use seem to want the latest versions. (Lilac requires PHP 5.2 for instance, so a PHP 5.1.6 release on CentoOS 5 isn't going to work) I've also run into some compile options lately that get quite annoying... like no mysql support for pam, or mysql support in postfix. It does cause me quite a bit more work, and I'm honestly seeing it all built into Ubuntu and Debian (I use both on my personal systems) and I'm thinking of starting to switch other people systems as well.
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