On 4/1/2010 1:35 PM, Robert Heller 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.
I did have it all working for a while on some machines but it seemed like something would break every time I updated anything.
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...
I used that too, but eventually replaced my external firewire drives with hot-swap SATA bays. But overall, I could not see anything at all that was better in 4.x than 5.x, so I migrated as much as I could directly from 3 to 5 and replaced the few 4.x's that I had installed as quickly as possible - and it still seems like the right thing to have done. I still have a few 3.x's lingering on, mostly because they never break and they have some odd application setups that I'm hoping won't be needed much longer so I won't have to re-create them.