[CentOS] Release 6?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:29:26 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On 4/1/2010 12:08 PM, R-Elists wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off
> >> upgrading most machines until 5 was out.  In retrospect that
> >> still seems like it was a good move even if most of the
> >> problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates.  But with
> >> many years elapsing between releases, skipping a version like
> >> that may not be possible again.
> >>
> >> --
> >>     Les Mikesell
> >
> > Les,
> >
> > what was buggy for you?
> >
> > internet facing or just internal servers?
> >
> > centos and the centos team have been rock solid for us in dealing with
> > CentOS 4 on our servers.
> 
> I can't remember the exact details.  Some of it had to do with mod_perl 
> and the assortment of other perl modules needed for RT, Twiki, and some 

*I* ended up using the standalone HTTP server for RT and populated the
missing perl mods from rpmforge.

> other applications. And maybe the mysql version was wrong for something 

CentOSPlus is needed for a *proper* version of mysql AND PHP for Joomla!
and WordPress.

> I wanted to run.  A lot of the things weren't technically broken, just 
> not particularly good version choices for their time.  I may have had 
> some driver problems with a Dell raid controller or firewire too, but I 

CentOSPlus has the firewire drivers...

> could be confusing it with Fedora 5 in the same timeframe.  Anyway, as 
> soon as 5.x was out it seemed much easier to deal with.  There are still 
> a few Centos 4's in the company that someone else maintains so I guess 
> they are OK if you stick to the included software and don't need mod_perl.
> 

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