On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 22:20 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote:
The compliation of ffmpeg/zoneminder seems to be an issue with CentOS with the outdated php/mysql and other various libs.
PHP and MySQL work fine for me. My systems depend on both these being reliable, efficient, dependable and robust - they are on Centos 5.6.
I can see the direction RHEL is taking and its more and more like Microsoft.
While Centos (and SL) exist, we are never going to be like M$. RH needs, commercially, to prevent/reduce business losses to copy-cat companies like Oracle etc.
The enduser is having to be more and more dependent on the provider. CentOS has its hands tied.
Yes all Centos users are dependent on RH if they want to run a 100% binary compatible system. However there is flexibility to add non-standard software and, as you have proved, one's own non-standard applications successfully.
Good Luck. We will be here if you pop back sometime in the future.