Indeed Eric Raymond recently switched to ubuntu from Redhat Fedora. You can read about his decision here
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/22/207231&from=rss Robert Lewko wrote: > Try [K]ubuntu. I have just installed this combo from packages using the > Synaptic package manager. Either Dapper or Edgy will have the package > you want. Once you taste a DEB package based distro you won't go back! > It'll be like candy. > > On 3/13/07, *Johnny Stork* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Ok I know I am being lazy here, but in production environments I really > need to be fast and efficient and get things up and running. Here is my > dilema. I have been running various systems with Redhat, Suse and > CentOs for years and have been relying on rpm updates for most > applications. However, I now have the need for things like PHP5 > (no rpms available) and Mysql 5x. The mysql5 upgrades are not > such a big deal as rpms are available and have already upgraded > a couple systems. However, I also need PHP 5 now and the one > time I tried installing PHP from source I gave up after failing to > get all modules compiled properly and figruing out how to load/use > the new version compiled from scratch. So now I am looking > at the XAMPP bundles but am wondering if there are any > guides for switching over to XAMMP installed bundles > on a system where apache, php, mysql etc are already > installed from RPM. > > Suggestions? > > __________________________ > Johnny Stork > Open Enterprise Solutions > > "Empowering Business With Open Source Software" > > http://www.openenterprise.ca > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines ( http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
