-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 June 2003 05:02, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: > I have a opportunity to upgrade and standardize a couple of mod_perl > enabled servers to the most stable configuration as of now. Apache 1.3 > and mod_perl was easy to choose since it is a production environment. > What I am very much confused is to what should I chose for the > distribution. For various reasons it is certainly going to be RedHat > but I have a choice between the very well tested 7.3 but highly likely > to become unsupported by RedHat soon. Or I could go for RedHat 9.0 and > rollback perl to 5.6.1 - I dont like the idea of running a production > server on a maintenance snapshots of perl especially a .0 release. If > anyone has recently had the opportunity to make simillar decisions do > share what made him/her decide on whatever platform was chosen. >
Go ahead and install RedHat 9. Sure, they use Apache 2.0, but you can do the barebones install and build everything you need from there. I've not had any problems building Apache 1.3 and mod_perl at all. I dunno, if you are really paranoid, just spend a couple of days and get LFS working! ;-) I don't know what the other guy is talking about when he says a whole bunch of stuff is broken. I guess if you don't upgrade to the latest versions of the packages you can't expect a whole lot. But who runs an unpatched system anyways? And as far as the ".0" scare, consider RedHat 9 like RedHat 8.1, or even RedHat 7.5. There isn't going to be a RedHat 9.1, or any ".0" or ".1" from here on out. Things are just developing too fast. I use Redhat 9 because it's just easier to manage, and it has a lot of things I like (Apache 2.0 w/ mod_perl and mod_python). I think when you start managing more and more machines (I've 3 at home!) that it's easier just to keep them all bleeding edge and updated. I don't even build my own software outside of a few RPMs I maintain anymore as it was just too much work. - -- Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (was [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Live Free, Use Linux! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7fwSWgwF3QvpWNwRAiuhAKDEDqx31+8Jz0VMrGdRSYwEGwIpDACfSekv D6P6I/XPzXV4DHb9i2Ujj2k= =75sb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
