[LON-CAPA-admin] upgrading from version 2.6.3

[Paul Omernik]

Gerd,

I agree that frequently-updated distros are a huge headache to maintain, I
still have much greater (day-to-day) familiarity with Debian-based linux,
and Canonical's LTS security update support for servers is five (!) years,
which, I believe, is unmatched in the Linux world.  Additionally, 10.04 LTS
was 'just' released, and is will be supported until April 2015.

On a related note, the move from FC6 to CentOS 5.3(/4/5) last summer on my
access servers was amazing.  I'm looking forward to doing the same to the
library server, but I chicken out when I think if I have all my bases
covered.

Paul

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Gerd Kortemeyer <korte at lite.msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to emphasize this point: Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc., are fun
> and user-friendly desktop systems, but not very fit for a server.
> Personally, I am very (very!) inclined to stop future support for these
> desktop distributions, but of course that needs to be a board decision. I
> did however take the liberty to set an end to the Commodore 64 support.
>
>
> - Gerd.
>
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