From: Peter Van Lone (petervl_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 03:55:54 CEST
Message-ID: <68b791330708061855i729a0eb5sd82ed909b5b536fb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:55:54 -0500 From: "Peter Van Lone" <petervl@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: SLES9 and MySQL5
On 8/6/07, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> One can either:
> - switch to a different platform, where this problem does not exist
> (mainly FreeBSD), but other problems may (swap problems, if you want)
> - install a new server with the new version of the enterprise OS
> that contains all the things one wants
> - install the 3rd party apps directly from vendor-upstream, 3rd-
> party commercial support (MySQL, EnterpriseDB, Symas, Sernet-Samba -
> you name it)
> - use/create something like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
well I think your list of choices rather echoed mine ... with the
exception of the last item that seems like a very good idea, though I
am sure it does not engender support from RH, and also you left out my
"other choice" ;
I still don't see why SUSE could not choose to support *a few more*
core/key linux applications, by committing to keeping it's "still
supported" SLES versions up to date FOR THESE SPECIFIC applications.
Would that not be .... a good thing, from both the marketing angle, as
well as for admins trying to support/enable a companies application
developers by giving them new'ish code versions for LAMPP bits?
It doesn't sound to me as though the commitment to do this would be
huge .. though I'm not a dev so of course I don't know for sure. And I
also realize that it MAY not be possible to update a 6 year old SLES
to every new version of PHP ... perhaps at some point it just becomes
impossible. To handle that, SUSE just promises best effort, to keep as
current as possible and still offer support.
Too much to ask?
peter
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