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