[LON-CAPA-admin] Supported distros

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

In my humble opinion, I would recommend to reduce the number of  
supported distributions, rather than taking on another one (but nobody  
ever listens to me).

Personally, I would recommend CentOS, http://www.centos.org/.

- Gerd.

On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Lars Jensen wrote:

> Hi Stuart,
>
> You once mentioned that Ubuntu might be added as a supported lon- 
> capa distro in the summer/fall. We need to upgrade our OS soon, and  
> I'd prefer Ubuntu if it is going to be available.
>
> We have been running SUSE 10.2 for the last couple of years, and  
> before that we ran Fedora. Both of these needs have relative short  
> official support periods, meaning that one needs to upgrade OS  
> fairly frequently. Debian/Ubuntu, which I like better also happen to  
> like better, have a longer duration of support. If Ubuntu is not  
> going to be supported, which (free) distro is then recommended?
>
> Thanks,
> Lars.
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