Hi, If you need the latest software versions why not use Fedora?
The versions of software are updated more frequently. The RHEL versions of software may be annoyingly behind, but I like the stability offered by RHEL. With new versions of software (seen in Fedora), new uncertainties / incompatibilities occur with other software. I remember with Redhat 9. We were trying to use it in a production environment. Red Hat would then release a new major version of Glib (for example) and our software would break. With RHEL because major versions of software don't change to often, you can depend on stability. James ________________________________ From: "Blackburn, Marvin" <[email protected]> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 10:02:08 AM Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] OT: Custom RPM from Red Hat? > Hi, > > I've just got an answer from Red Hat support and I feel a bit > disappointed, so I'm asking your experience. The other day we realized > that one particular application which is shipped in RHEL 5 is pretty > old, we need a more recent version, so we asked Red Hat if they could > provide a proper RPM package. The support informed me that this is not > possible, Red Hat does not ship "custom" packages, even if the > customer is willing to have an advanced developer support contract or > something like this. If we need this functionality, the only solution > is to use unsupported package compiled by ourselves or 3rd party. > > Has anyone ever had a similar situation? We have this issue with mysql. The version offered in the distro is older than the dba wants. So we have to get newer packages from alternate sources. This is not the best. It's just the cost of accepting RHEL's model. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
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