[ale] Ubuntu for developers?

[Christopher Fowler]

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 00:13 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > Easy to say, hard to do.  We've got 500 + systems that run with
> 4.0.16 mysql.   
> > Using newer versions is dangerous, because code that works on the
> developers 
> > box might not work in the field.

Also what I typically do is compile the critical code for the system.
Even though we use FC2 we are using I believe 4.1.18 of MySQL.  I just
compiled it for FC2.  I've done the same for testing MySQL 5.X