On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:20:07PM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: > > I have never had a problem upgrading a CentOS release since I started with > 3.x. Seems now, I can't even upgrade from 5.6 to 5.7. I have never had to do > a complete re-install since moving from Slackware 1.x to Redhat 2.x except > once when I had a hard drive failure. There is no 5.7 yet. > The software package I use which takes hours of trial and error to compile > and install is as simple apt-get install under Ubunto. There are no rpms for > zoneminder 1.24.x. The compliation of ffmpeg/zoneminder seems to be an issue > with CentOS with the outdated php/mysql and other various libs. I know of at least one packaged zoneminder and its required deps; I'm not sure if it's public but if it is the person that did the packaging will likely speak up as he is on this list. So it's indeed possible. > I can see the direction RHEL is taking and its more and more like Microsoft. > The enduser is having to be more and more dependent on the provider. CentOS > has its hands tied. This is purely FUD. > I thank all for the help I have recievied over the years, its just not > beneficial to stay this current direction. Good luck with future endeavors. John -- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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