Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Posix functions Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:59:40 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net StA2WBu58ebuceJR8tLnjgSj606q5zFcgU4gd3Wxe/Cf3PQxQF Cancel-Lock: sha1:7Sz5zhp4hmDc48QTPS5dbEKJAqw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130326 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:8946 On 04/04/13 22:27, Mladen Gogala wrote: > On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:11:53 +0200, J.O. Aho wrote: > > >> Could I tempt with SourceMage or Gentoo? Both allow you to build >> packages with features you want. > > So does Fedora, it's Linux, after all. Sure, but a lot more work, specially if you want RPMs to install. > Being an Oracle DBA and needing > Oracle, I need an RPM based distribution, because that's what Oracle > supports. I've been toying with the idea of OpenSuse and the last Fedora > made this idea look more appealing then ever before. Just for someone just releases RPMs, don't mean you can't get it installed on a system with another package manager, I know Gentoo do install quite many RPM based packages when it comes to closed source stuff. -- //Aho