[development] Looking forward next year and PHP versions

[Khalid B]

> > *) By 2007, Debian Etch with PHP5 support will be out. (It's
> > currently scheduled to December 2006 and even if it slips to Jan
> > 2007, it matters little here). Please do not litter the thread with
> > praise/critique/flames re. Debian.
>
> This is just great. I have using the experimental versions of this for
> ages. And I think that this is what is in Ubuntu Linux.
>
> For me Debian/Ubuntu with PHP5 is so easy to set up a site. I think the
> only thing that is missing from Debian for a PHP set up is an opcache. I
> usually need to compile APC from PECL.

For those interested, here are details on how to install APC for PHP on
Ubuntu/Debian.

http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/installing-php-apc-on-ubuntu-dapper-and-debian.html