You also don't need containers to use a different version of PHP to the default install. Just compile it up from a tarball (or even from a modified srpm) and use a different DESTDIR during the make install stage.
I have personally never quite understood Linux magazines for this reason; they do a review of a Linux distro and it is basically like every other single review just with slightly different (and pointless) version numbers. The only place where it matters is in massive (effectively monolithic) software where it is almost impossible to backport such as large desktop environments or even Xorg. For example it is easier to update the Linux kernel itself rather than update Gnome 3.
I have personally never quite understood Linux magazines for this reason; they do a review of a Linux distro and it is basically like every other single review just with slightly different (and pointless) version numbers. The only place where it matters is in massive (effectively monolithic) software where it is almost impossible to backport such as large desktop environments or even Xorg. For example it is easier to update the Linux kernel itself rather than update Gnome 3.
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