LonnieOlson

After reading the article about PHP 5 and SQLite I wanted to try it out to speed up my dinky little website. I don’t need the humongous power of MySQL. But, here is my dilemma,

1. My host does not have PHP5 nor do they have PEAR to install the SQLite extension.
2. My ISP does not allow me to use PEAR to download SQLite.
3. My comuter at home running RedHat 7.3 is so old and out of date it is a bitch to meet all of the requirements for PHP5

Here goes the upgrade story:

1. First came Gentoo 1.4RC4, a highly configurable Linux distro that contains the latest software.—Too bad it takes 3 days just to install the base system, XFree, and Gnome (I don’t have the patience)
2. Next is Debian 3.0—Great distro but all packages are old (stable is the preferred term)
3. Mandrake 9.0 is still too old
4. Finally I found FreeBSD 5.1—Faster than Gentoo, and current packages to install.

I will let you know what I find about SQLite.