[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:58:02PM +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
> - Tethys wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Sean Burlington<sean at practicalweb.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >> What about PHP 5.2 - released in November 2006 and still not supported
> >> by RedHat?
> > 
> > That's an edge case, as I'm sure you well know. It was released right
> 
> I figured it was unlucky timing - and I don't usually use RedHat.
> 
> I just happen to have a contract (PHP dev) at a place that uses RedHat - 
> and got caught out by the old version - somebody else who knows RH 
> better than me upgraded.

I wonder if they asked us to backport any features from PHP 5.2
that they needed?

Specific version numbers of RHEL packages don't usually mean much
after a while, because we backport so many features from later
packages back.  The kernel "version" 2.6.18 is a case in point.

(I know nothing about PHP, nor about PHP in RHEL ...)

Rich.

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