Re: [Sheflug] Distro choice for apache/php/postgre/mysql

[Andy Davidson <andyd [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Oct 2004, at 19:13, Alan Pope wrote:

> > I want to run apache/php/postgre/mysql on an old PC (not sure of the 
> > spec
[...]
> Debian gets my vote. I installed debian sarge (testing) on a box just
> yesterday and installed apache/php/mysql on it with no headaches at
> all.
Yes, Debian is good for small tight installs.  I don't like running 
production kit on testing/unstable distributions because testing 
distributions change a lot - that's what they're *supposed* to do, and 
this sometimes leads to your application busting.

But if you're using stable/woody, then you definitely need to backport 
a recent v4 MySQL so that you can take advantage of the performance 
boost against 3.23 versions, get fulltext indexing, and improved 
replication.

The first time I did this (I *had* to get fulltext indexing into an 
application I had build), it was a case of backporting a shonky 4.0 
alpha; things are a little better these days.


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