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To: dreamwvr <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>, Jamie Krasnoo <webmaster@myeboard.com> From: "Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog" <drfrog@smartt.com> Subject: Re: Looking for a new distro Date: 13 Jan 2001 15:04:58 PST heya all: im really waiting for the next bunch of releases here, im hoping that they all start doing a lil more Q&A before release!! ive tried a lot of different dists and nothing has me going "oh yeah!!" mandrake 7.2 is my current "lesser of Nth evils" last summer i went to town downloading everything from debian to suse and back to slack and redhat at the time i started using mandrake its mod_perl was sett up nice its not bad on 7.2 but it splits up so there is an httpd and an httpd-perl i dont like having to configure both so i un-rpmd then and rolled my own, DSO style install in less than thirty mins drop my config in and zoom!! again some of this has to do with how a dist sets up apache i like it all in /home/ww but most put the conf 's under /etc etc etc. some of these compatiblility & file management issues drive me nuts!! and i usually uninstall and recomp my own well that my take on it anyhow === To: Jamie Krasnoo <webmaster@myeboard.com> From: Wim Kerkhoff <wim@merilus.com> Subject: Re: Looking for a new distro Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:44:58 -0800 For some reason, I think this will be a long (but on-topic) thread... On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:32:44PM -0800, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > Ok, I've had it with RH 7.0. Too many problems. What Linux distro are some > of you using with Apache 1.3.14 and mod perl 1.24_01? I use Debian (potato/woody/sid). Getting a good development environment is a snap, and I've never lost time to figuring out wierd kernel/glibc/perl problems. Personally I prefer to do a very minimal install of debian, then just apt-get whatever I need (ssh, vim, etc). Perl modules can be installed using apt-get, but it's just as easy to get them using the CPAN module. Not having to hunt down dependencies and download separate RPM's is something you get used to _very_ quickly! Within an hour, I can have debian installed, a new kernel compiled, and apache/mod_perl compiled and installed. /me goes back to getting Perl 5.6, LWP, and other things to work properly on a RH 7.0 box... ARGH!! === To: modperl@apache.org From: "Sean D. Cook" <sdc@edutest.com> Subject: Re: Looking for a new distro Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:30:24 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, dreamwvr wrote: > Try .. > www.linux-mandrake.com > Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > Not to turn this into a distro war but mandrake is not exactly known for its stability. Redhat is currently in a .0 release which is not stable at all. Debian and Slackware are really your best bet for stability. Personally I recommend slackware. If you really want to stick with Redhat you can get a copy of 6.2 it is pretty standard. === To: "Jeffrey A. Stuart" <jstuart-devel@neo.rr.com>, From: "Jamie Krasnoo" <webmaster@myeboard.com> Subject: RE: Looking for a new distro Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:44:11 -0800 I found what the problem was, thanks to Michael Weiner (Hunter). For some reason, when mod_perl is compiled in to Apache as a static, it loads the file stated in PerlRequire twice. When I recompiled mod_perl as a DSO it stopped doing that. This bug seems like its a problem with the RedHat distro. I should have seen it. There may be a reason that RH 7.0 comes with Apache compiled with all mods in DSO. This problem doesn't seem to crop up on other distributions. Anyways, I think we can put this thread to bed. Thanks to everyone for your comments. Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey A. Stuart [mailto:jstuart-devel@neo.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 3:48 PM To: Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog; dreamwvr; Jamie Krasnoo Cc: Modperl Subject: RE: Looking for a new distro Hey just as an FYI... I've got mod_perl and apache 1.3.14 and PHP 4.04 (I think or maybe 4.03pl1) installed with no problems on my redhat 7 box. Now, it's my devel box so I don't know if there are any "major" problems with it. :) It does double duty as my devel box and my personal router (got my cable modem hooked up on it and then route my internal boxes through it. :)). For Apache/mod_perl/PHP, I downloaded the source and installed those directly along with Mysql... -- Jeff (FurBall) WebOverdrive Newbie Tech Board http://www.topniche.com/tech/ furball@weboverdrive.com -----Original Message----- From: Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog [mailto:drfrog@smartt.com] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 6:05 PM To: dreamwvr; Jamie Krasnoo Cc: Modperl Subject: Re: Looking for a new distro heya all: im really waiting for the next bunch of releases here, im hoping that they all start doing a lil more Q&A before release!! ive tried a lot of different dists and nothing has me going "oh yeah!!" mandrake 7.2 is my current "lesser of Nth evils" last summer i went to town downloading everything from debian to suse and back to slack and redhat at the time i started using mandrake its mod_perl was sett up nice its not bad on 7.2 but it splits up so there is an httpd and an httpd-perl i dont like having to configure both so i un-rpmd then and rolled my own, DSO style install in less than thirty mins drop my config in and zoom!! again some of this has to do with how a dist sets up apache i like it all in /home/ww but most put the conf 's under /etc etc etc. some of these compatiblility & file management issues drive me nuts!! and i usually uninstall and recomp my own well that my take on it anyhow ===