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. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/