On 22/02/2010 12:44, John Cooper wrote:
> On 22/02/10 12:07, Brian Chivers wrote:
>> As some of you will know I'm a recent convert to Ubuntu from mostly RH /
>> CentOS. I've been playing around with Ubuntu 9.10 in our virtual
>> environment and will soon be bringing some production servers on-line
>> but the length of updates does worry me slightly. I've been using CentOS
>> as it has a really long life cycle (7 years) and some of our servers
>> just "sit" working for years on end without much care and attention (yes
>> I know that's bad but they work so I don't fix them)
>>
>> Now I'm using Ubuntu I see that 9.10 has an 18 month life cycle and this
>> might not be brilliant for things like our VLE (Moodle) that will need
>> to work without much downtime for a couple of years.
>>
>> Now the $100 question, then the next Ubuntu LTS is released(April I
>> think I read somewhere) with I be able to upgrade from 9.10 to it ?? The
>> box will be fairly standard stuff like MySQL, Apache, PHP& bits like
>> that, nothing too custom ?
>>
>> Thoughts please :-)
>
> Unless Ubuntu is actually giving something CentOS doesn't have, stick
> with CentOS ;-)
>
> If you still want to proceed with Ubuntu, you really need to stay with
> LTS versions as the upgrade will have been tested. Can you wait till April?
>
The problem with CentOS is that the packages for things like Samba are
so out of date. I could install from Source but worry then that other
things will break when I do a little update.
I still use CentOS to fairly static things like DNS where it's only
security updates I want :-)
Brian
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