How to find a "good" server distro

[Jerry McBride]

On Saturday 19 September 2009 22:27:27 Collins Richey wrote:
> In my case "good" has a rather restricted meaning.
> 
> 1. Solid, secure, etc.
> 2. Capable of running latest PHP, MySQL (yes I know this is despised
> by many list members) without contortions.
> 
> The situation at work is this. We are running RHEL5/CentOS5, but
> developers for some of the websites have a need for PHP5.3. Of course
> this is not available from RedHat. I managed to track down PHP5.3 rpms
> designed for RHEL5/CentOS5 and the required MySQL, but some of the PHP
> stuff has other dependencies that are difficult to resolve. I was
> unable to find a particular perl-DBD module that will fit. And the
> php-pdo module has a SQLITE dependancy that appears to be impossible
> to resolve. RH in their great wisdom has a further downlevel PHP5.0
> but very uplevel SQLITE3, and PHP5.3 (per reported bugs) will only
> work with SQLITE2 or earlier.And, of course, RH has other dependencies
> that require SQLIT3. Catch 22.
> 
> As a side note, even Debian unstable isn't offering PHP5.3 yet.
> 
> Sigh. The ideal "good" distro would be one which has a solid core with
> security updates, but offers upgraded packages for the LAMP stuff.
> 

If I may be so bold as to recommend gentoo? It will do JUST what you want.


Jerry

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