[TriLUG] Slightly OT: Apache1.x Vs. Apache 2.x

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Thu Sep 2 21:45:55 EDT 2004


James Beidler said the following on 9/2/04 2:29 PM:

> I didn't think I was that far out of touch with the Linux distros!  Sorry,
> I'm basing my statements on the work I did a few months ago so it may be
> dated.  At the time, most of the distros that I encountered (RH, Mandrake,
> Gentoo, etc.) were sticking with Apache 1, and SM was said only to be
> compatibly with Apache 2 (which, as we both said, that statement is less
> than true).

Mandrake moved to Apache 2.x with in its version 9.x (sorry, don't remember
which .x).  Before doing so, however, they spent a year and a half testing
it as much as they could.  They also waited until it played well with PHP
to add it to their distro.

Cheers,
Tanner



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