[olug] Best distro for bleeding edge web server and best VPS

[Kenton Brede]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:03 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Old PHP and Apache/Nginx packages often have known security vulnerabilities
> and yet the major distros still drag their feet on providing the latest and
> greatest. If there is a really critical security vulnerability, they'll
> patch in a fix for that into an old package.
>
>
This is by design, for stability purposes.  They backport the
bug/security/enhancement patches.  The result is, the major package name
stays the same, but they are patched.


> There are also performance concerns where PHP 5.5 and Apache 2.4 offered
> huge gains and yet every distro waited for ages to provide packages.
> On Mon Nov 03 2014 at 12:56:06 PM Nate Benes <nate at prefork.net> wrote
>

Again, stability is the reason for that.  There's always a tradeoff with
distros: stability vs. latest and greatest.  If you're going to run a
desktop distro as a server, that get's you closer to the latest package
versions, but, well, you're running a desktop as a server.....

-- 
Kent Brede