On 3/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Cannell</b> <<a href="mailto:larry@cannell.org">larry@cannell.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I suggest following the timing of a conservative Open Source distribution. Debian Stable is true to its name. It is very stable. I expect Debian Stable will support PHP 5 upon its next major release.<br><br>The current Debian Stable is the sarge release. It was released in June 2005.
<br><br>The previous Debian Stable was the woody release. It was released in July 2002. Support for it was dropped in June 2006 (one year after the release of sarge).<br><br>If timing stays the same then expect a new Stable release (etch) in June 2008 with support dropping for sarge in June 2009.
<br><br>However, no release plans have been published by Debian at this time and exact dates will surely vary. But these dates may provide some guidance.</blockquote><div><br>I hear what you are saying.<br><br>However, Debian is less widely in hosting environments as opposed to Red Hat and its
<br>derivatives (CentOS, Fedora).<br><br>Also, Debian is notoriously slow in releasing stable releases, and this is why other<br>derivative distros exist, most notably, Ubuntu. <br><br>Due to the above, using them as a guideline is questionable.
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