CentOS and v5.6

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At Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:41:29PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Joe Chasan was observed uttering:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 05:14:37PM -0400, Dan Snyder wrote:
> > We tried to install filePro v5.6 on our Redhat Enterprise LINUX 4 server
> > over the weekend.  We received an error that GLIBC v2.4 is required (REHL 4
> > ES has 2.3.4).  After doing some Google searches, it appears that we cannot
> > easily upgrade GLIBC without running into problems, so we must upgrade our
> > OS.  We are considering CentOS v.5.6.  Does anyone have any experience with
> > that OS, good or bad?
> 
> i have a customer in almost exact same situation (only difference is they
> have an early, buggy, fp 5.6 and can't update it b/c fp switched to new
> glibc). i came to similar conclusion.  won't be putting in rhel anymore
> after the mess.  have not cut them over yet - built a centos 5.6 test 
> server - but now i see 6.0 (and soon 6.1) are out - anyone play with it 
> yet with fp?

To be fair to RH (which kills me to do), it's not a RH issue, it will bite
any older distro from any vendor.  It's in how fP-Tech is compiling the
binaries.

I -still- recommend CentOS over RHEL, hands-down.

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