2011/11/1 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de>: > On 11/01/2011 06:53 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> 2011/11/1 Bob Hoffman<bob at bobhoffman.com>: >>> I have been reading the threads on here with great ernest about redhat >>> making a move to throw off centos compilations. >>> I read some stories about microsoft wanting to work closer with centos >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/17/microsoft_and_centos/ >>> >>> I have to update to centos 6 due to some needs of clients who need newer >>> mysql and php (and installing them on centos5 >>> was too hard for me). >> >> You can get updated php and mysql from ius community repo. >> >> http://iuscommunity.org/ > > I don't think the real question here is whether you can get updated > packages from somewhere but if it's worthwhile to build upon centos when > it's becoming increasingly difficult for centos to make releases. Well, I mainly use RHEL on production systems - for many reasons. You can also try use scientific linux.. br, -- Eero