I've just been upgrading php to 5.1.3 on my vps and had to disable XML and Pear support due to newer versions of libxml2 being required.

I tried upgrading the libxml2, libxml2-devel and libxml2-python rpm packages but hit a brick wall for further dependencies (python etc) that would be just too much of a pain to upgrade. I'm an old slackware head and hate rpm distros for this very reason.

So, my question. Are there any other os images available for jag vps's and what control panels run on them. I dont have many sites on the vps so it would be easier for me to do a fresh install to a more up to date image than upgrade centos 3.

Tell me you have a slackware image and a control panel that runs on it