{"id":706,"date":"2009-10-25T20:10:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2009-10-25T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T03:10:23","slug":"stick-with-fedora-and-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/stick-with-fedora-and-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick with Fedora and Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; I guess as long as they can maintain 6-months release cycle, they will be &#8220;up-to-date&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 <a href='https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/stick-with-fedora-and-ubuntu\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}