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 with CentOS with the outdated php/mysql and other various libs.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. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.