CrimsonRedMk Member Posted September 29, 2008 Member Share Posted September 29, 2008 Hello, I haven't used CentOS but fell in love with RHEL and need it to run an application. Reading people's complaints about CentOS 5 packages being out of date and that CentOS 4 has newer packages, I now don't know which one to choose. Can someone verify which has newer packages? I know I need PHP 5.21 and the newest CentOS 5 package is 5.16 I think, but haven't looked at CentOS 4's packages. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 CentOS 4 was released with php-4.3.9-3.22.9 so I don't know if after that they released PHP 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 CentOS does its versioning based on the RHEL version it corresponds to. So CentOS 4 = RHEL 4 and CentOS 5 = RHEL 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonRedMk Member Posted September 30, 2008 Author Member Share Posted September 30, 2008 I guess I'll go with 5 since it has more up-to-date packages out of the box and I'll just use an RPM from Fedora or something for out-dated packages. Thanks for the input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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