Slackware 12.0 released [LWN.net]

Slackware 12.0 released

Posted Jul 4, 2007 0:13 UTC (Wed) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)
In reply to: Slackware 12.0 released by peace
Parent article: Slackware 12.0 released

Why would someone choose Slack over deb or ubuntu?

Hmm, unlike Debian, Slack doesn't push their own ideas on how config files should be organized onto the user.
Whenever I work on a Debian system, I have to remember where they have put the config file parts for the particular apps.
And on Debian, it is often pretty much impossible to do things the way you want if that deviates from what the Debian developers think best (try installing multi-threaded Apache with PHP on Debian...)
Slack doesn't give me this "we know best" thing. With Slack, I am in control of my installation.

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Slackware 12.0 released

Posted Jul 4, 2007 23:07 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Is it so hard to install apache2-mpm-worker? ;)

Slackware 12.0 released

Posted Jul 7, 2007 19:53 UTC (Sat) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

mpm-worker is not compatible with PHP, and there is a good reason for that.

Read this, e.g.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/12296 :

"... the current opinion of upstream is that PHP's Thread Safety Resource Manager is so poorly-written, it should be completely removed, and NEVER used in production. Their recommendation for users of threaded webservers is currently to use CGI or FastCGI.

After enabling ZTS on Debian's PHP builds and triaging a bunch of bug reports over the last few weeks, while I'm not convinced ZTS is complete evil, it does seem fairly obvious that it's poorly-maintained and not ready for prime-time."