[thelist] Just moved from Vista to Ubuntu -Web Dev Help???

[Jay Turley]

Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. And for the inevitable technical
discussion ;-)
-Jay

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On 29 Sep 2009, at 20:15, Fred Jones wrote:
>
> >>> In my experience the packages are OK for simple local testing.
> >>> Unless
> >>> you need something very specific...
> >>
> >> And for production use too - otherwise you won't get the security
> >> updates nicely.
> >
> > Well you may not always want them. My workstation wanted to upgrade to
> > PHP 5.3 but I read that some software I test on it won't work on 5.3.
> > So I had to stop that upgrade. :)
>
>
> Package-managed updates shouldn't upgrade functional versions; just
> provide necessary defect/security fix updates.
>
> This is strictly enforced in Debian (and Ubuntu I think); don't know
> what other distros' policy is.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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