[LON-CAPA-admin] Supported distros

[Mark Lucas]

Lars,

I've been running CentOS and have been happy with it. I seem to remember
it's supposed to have a three year lifetime?  I know I was quite happy
not having to update the OS last Summer for Fedora!

Mark


On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 11:29 -0400, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> 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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