Wow! Are you really updating that much PHP code to out pace 5.3? I am a bit confused though.......what exactly do you need? Do you need a specific version of PHP? or do you want the latest and greatest linux server to run an older version of php?

If a latest and greatest distro of linux supports the latest version of PHP (lets say 5.5) but your code currently only runs on 5.3 or 5.4, just manually install the version of PHP that your application runs on ( 5.3 or 5.4). You can still get updates for that php version from the repo's

Locally on my PC i have Fedora and I I have PHP 5.5 running.....

At work on my work PC I have PHP 5.4 running for development

On our servers we both 5.3 and 5.4 versions pf PHP running....

I use the eclipse IDE for development and if I need to develop for a specific version of PHP, I just change the properties in eclipse and the PDT plugin knows what is available for that version.

not sure what a flame war is..somebody enlighten me please!

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have been on CentOS 6.x for a while. And before that it was 5.x... I support a Drupal install and CentOS just does not keep up very well. CenOS 6.x is running PHP 5.3 which is no longer supported. I understand RedHat maintained PHP during the O/S life cycle. At several points that was not enough.

I'm pondering another distro that is a little more current and still stable. This is to run Drupal on. Any suggestions? I'm looking at Ubuntu as a potential distro.

Thanks in advance and I am not trying to start a flame war.

Keith

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