David Eisenhart david@erothe.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

On a different but related note I see a lot of stuff (such as RPMs, tutorials) that directly relates to Red Hat. Consequently, as a total novice I wondering whether I would be better off moving over to Red Hat

Oh please, don't do that. Red Hat gets far too much adoption for this sort of silly reason. If you want to do something that Red Hat does particularly well, then by all means use Red Hat, but don't just pick it because you see it mentioned a lot. A lot of those mentions won't be complimentary, like mine. ;-)

Now, as to your particular problem, I would expect that either SuSE have something similar to my Debian's "unstable" distribution that you can collect more recent version from, some volunteers will be packaging things for SuSE, or you are safe to use the ones from the projects' own sites. Seeing as we're all meant to support the Linux Standard Base these days, I would expect the projects' packages to be fairly fine.

Worst case, I would expect you could take the package information file from the current source RPM in SuSE and use it to build an RPM from the source downloaded from the project site.

We used to have some SuSE users on this list. Maybe they know more...

Of course, you probably want to look at nicer software than PHP and MySQL, but I normally get flamed for expressing that opinion. :-(