[UPHPU] PHP 4 EOL Announcement

[Brandon Stout]

John Finlay wrote:
> But we have to ask ourselves, why haven't the hosts upgraded to PHP 5?
> It is because, until just recently all of the Linux distributions still
> included PHP 4 by default.  Really, what hosting provider is going to
> take the time to compile PHP from source when your OS distribution
> provides an RPM, even if it is an out of date RPM.
>   

I wouldn't say *all* Linux distros.  The major one's I tested a couple 
years ago had PHP5 RPM packages.  I tested Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandriva, 
and others.