w-sky wrote:MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5 are outdated and insecure
Wow, Mysql 5.5.5 used in stable was released in late 2010! See:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql ... 5-5-5.html2010-07-06
The geniuses in the linux cult performs such nonsense all the time -- it is their default setting. Generally they like to waste monumental effort making millions of useless window managers, and backporting security fixes and bugfixes from software they want to hold hostage for about 4-6 years in time in a semi-frozen state under the deluded notion that it is more secure. Meanwhile stuff that is missing or annoying never gets dealt with and only gets worse. How could it, they are too busy making too many desktop environments that are lacking and don't work together beceause herrr-derr "freedom to suck", trying to patch dinosaur software that upstream doesn't care about as they stopped supporting it, etc.?
Don't try to argue with true believers of this cult. Instead go to your local Scientology center for
sane conversation. Anyway maybe on the server that approach has merit, but there is no reason why home users should be using four to six year old versions of browsers, torrent clients, crappy outdated word processors that anyway cannot interact with documents that most the world creates anyway, etc. Frankly these people don't care and will suffer with nonsense and inferiority as long it is open-source inferiority.