At Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:29:26 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@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.