[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Sean Burlington]

Hari Sekhon wrote:

> If developers want to use an underdog language for web development and 
> use a library that was released 2 months ago on a stable server, how can 
> you expect it to be packaged for you?
> 

What about PHP 5.2 - released in November 2006 and still not supported 
by RedHat?

(Debian had PHP 5.2 in  Etch [April 2007] and now in lenny [Feb 2009])

For my money/time Debian gets the balance about right - I find Ubuntu a 
bit too bleeding edge and RedHat a bit too slow.


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Sean Burlington

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