New PHP 4.3.8 RPMS Released

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Stuart,

> > That's interesting how you say that, you don't have a RH8 system and 
you're 
> > making a recommendation based on that. Before FL dropped RH8 support, I 
ran 5 
> > large RH8 production servers, never had a problem with any of them and 
really 
> > never needed to upgrade, they were humming along just fine.
> 
> I said I didn't have a RH8 system, not that I had never had one. RH8 
> has major problems with the RPM database system with RPM 
> transactions benchmarked to take over 4 times longer than RH7.3.
> 
> Sure.. they'll be just fine if you leave them alone but then so 
> would a Slackware 2.0 machine. :) However, as soon as one attempts 
> to do any sort of RPM development or even update RPMs on a regular 
> basis (I'm in the webhosting arena and PHP, Apache and Control panel 
> updates are common) the RPM system goes to hell.
> 
> *shrugs* You've switched to RH9 now? Ironic. ;)

FC1 actually :). Yeah, RPM has always been an issue in RH8 but for the servers 
that my company was running that problem didn't play such a big role, remember 
also that FL released the patched RPM package manager which resolved those 
issues.

For me, I just don't like to see "bad press" about an OS that was production 
quality and ran in production just fine, sure it had a couple of hiccups, just 
like any other OS does, but to say the least it was certainly still better 
than Windows production servers.

Michael.