Oct 252009
 

I’m building NoSQL stuffs that are pretty much from source (instead of well packaged), so I have some restriction on libraries version, such as libevent, Berkeley DB, etc.

Obviously CentOS is a bad choice for this as its goal to maintain stability, similar to Ubuntu LTS version. Surprisingly, Debian is not that up-to-date in repo (for example, db4.6 only, not 4.7).

So I think I should stick with Fedora and Ubuntu (non-LTS version) which seems keeping cutting edge stuffs. I will also check other distro – I guess as long as they can maintain 6-months release cycle, they will be “up-to-date”.

I will get rid of CentOS and Debian for now, and if I cannot find any other distro meet the requirement I will make all my testing nodes running Fedora and Ubuntu, half-half.