Is FC8 stable enough for what I am doing...

[Chuck]

On Jan 20, 2008 11:36 AM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> 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