Lester Caine wrote:
Checked distrowatch?
I had stopped checking distrowatch some years ago, mainly because I was happy with the 'base' (SUSE) but also because at that time there was a lot 'missing' from the listings. But I've found the 'All tracked packages' now ...
I've been having an in depth scout through this morning since Fedora is proving just as difficult as other offerings I have tried over the last few weeks.
It's interesting to see which distributions are still on 5.2 and which have skipped 5.3 altogether and are using 5.4 in 'head'. I'm even seeing PHP4! but I suspect although distrowatch flag the listing as 'active' they are actually dead. That and dead or incorrect links to distributions don't help ...
The thought that came to mind while looking through was "Is it better nowadays to go for a distribution that does NOT include Apache/PHP?" And then manual installs are not confused with older automatic updates. distrowatch flagged that it's only since 8.10 ubuntu has had these bundled, which explains my notes when trying out 8.04LTS which is still running on a couple of sites - not updated - but safe because they are not accessible outside their local network.
But even if distrowatch says a distro supports 5.4, there is no easy way of checking just what extensions are included and more important just what 'style' of installation the distro is using. Remi's repo has every extension that I would be using which is nice, and looks like it follows the /etc/php.d method of extension management, but that is not always the case. However I have yet to work out how to add that repo TO the Fedora package handler ... just another area where every distro is different :(
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