Hello, I heard a member of my local LUG say "I don't like RH9, it has too many obsolete packages". When I asked him to be specific he listed (translated and sinthesized from italian, I can provide the original LUG archive URL if anybody wants it): Quite old versions of Mozilla/Galeon Same for some Latex package Apache and PHP shipped in old versions (even in RH8) Apache = 2.0.40 vs 2.0.44 in MDK 9.1, which also includes 1.3.27 preferred in many production servers. PHP 4.2.2 when last stable version is 4.3.1 PHP in RH 9 includes bug (signalled on bugzilla, he says) making PEAR DB incompatible with PostgreSQL as shipped in RH9 The reason why I'm posting this here is because the Release Notes say nothing about these issues, and I'm curious what is the rationale for choosing the shipped versions. Personally I don't even use some of those packages, and the others are fine for me, not to mention the fact that I almost always prefer stability over untested things installed just because they are new. However, I'd like to: 1) give to him the real reasons for those choices 2) Since we are at this, ask if somebody thinks the same, and regards to which packages -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
