NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Daniel Convissor wrote:

> > I am dissatisfied with CentOS' conservatism -- I guess it's not for me --
> > but installing another distro based on a hunch that it might help seems like
> > overkill, doesn't it?
> 
> Yeah, there are many Linux distros that really suck at updating packages.  
> You can always compile PHP yourself.

I think CentOS (and other RedHat-derived distros) all suffer from this 
problem. (I had the same problem with Ruby packages too). That's why I 
stopped using those distros a few years ago. I now use Gentoo.


-- 
Aj.