Scott Best
Monday, March 28, 2011 8:51 AM

Heyaz. I updated that package this morning to include a version built
for the CentOS 5.5 flavor.

Turns out ... CentOS is optimized for stability, so they hold back on
some updates that other Linux flavors move ahead with. For example,
libstdc++. On the echoServer we've built for demo.echovnc.com (which
runs Debian 5), we use the recent g++-3.4.9 library, so we need a
runtime library that is compatible with libstdc++-3.4.9. And ...
CentOS' default libstdc++ isn't.

Are you sure about that?

My problem with Red Hat, and therefore CentOS, is that they have version X of an app or library, and version X+1 comes out... and instead of releasing an RPM for version X+1, they backport the changes to the version X RPM.

So, for any given piece of software, the publisher can release a dozen updates, but the version number on the RPM doesn't change until the next release of Red Hat/CentOS.

Irritated the hell out of me when I had to deal with SecurityMetrics, who was doing a security audit on a client's site, on my server. "You need to be running Apache X, and you're running Apache Y." "Actually, it's fully patched." Meh.

It's annoying enough that any future Linux servers I own will run Debian.

(end rant)


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