[olug] Centos

[Sam Tetherow]

PHP and Apache were the biggest ones for me.  Mysql to a lesser extent.  
Granted this was in the CentOS 5 days and there were several php 5.2 
security fixes coming out on a weekly/monthly basis.  Finding a good rpm 
repository for updates was a must.

On 05/22/2013 11:17 AM, Obi-Wan wrote:
>> Good point about keeping packages updated & upgrades. Definitely worth bringing up.
> Unless you need support for a new device, I rarely found the slow
> package update cycle to be a problem for servers.  For production
> servers, you generally don't want to be upgrading packages willy
> nilly unless you've got a specific reason, like security updates
> or needed functionality.  Once it's stable, let it lie.
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