<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Tomcat 7 has been GA for 2.5+ years, and Redhat is still distributing 6? Tomcat 8 is close to release these days. We always use the binaries from Apache because the repositories are too far behind. If we weren't developing our own software, and were just using some packaged product that worked fine with 6 I'd probably feel differently. I'm on both sides of the developer/admin fence though.<br><br>Scott<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Neal Rhodes" <neal@mnopltd.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, August 12, 2013 12:40:08 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?<br><br>
Trying to get back on A topic which relates to linux....<br>
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If you were charged with putting up a secure internal Web Services framework on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for a financial application, would you:<br>
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"yum install tomcat6"<br>
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or, <br>
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go to Apache.org, download the sources, compile, and pray. <br>
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No, this is not a trick question. I've always just used the tested supplied Redhat version which "just works". But there are apparently other opinions, just trying to figure out if they are crazy. <br>
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Neal Rhodes<br>
MNOP Ltd
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