> I would like to evaluate the possibility of using Ubuntu instead of > Debian on some of our servers.
Wow. We've had a an OS/distribution discussion a few times in the past, and it was agreed we use/continue-to-use to Debian. We also never had any system problems with Debian that would make us reconsider this. > It is often more up-to-date than > Debian, and has more frequent stable releases. Hopefully the > advantages of this are obvious -- newer versions of software that we > use, and a more stable upgrade path for said software when compared to > our current Debian testing setup. I've used Ubuntu interchangeably > with Debian at my LUG's servers, and it works quite well as a server > OS. My experience with Ubuntu was disappointing. Even putting that aside, Ubuntu is not a distribution targetted at the server or advanced-users' market anyway. > I would not mind it too much > if we went for Debian instead, but in that case I would almost > certainly need to manually backport (that is, make custom Debian > packages for) new versions of critical software (MoinMoin, Apache, > etc.). There are at least 2 sites where we can take Debian-native, newer versions of packages. One of them that I know offhand is http://www.backports.org/ . We've used it before moving to testing on fyodor and it was working well. > I would also suggest if we use Debian, that we stick with only > stable releases, given the trouble that the testing version gave us > recently. We already agreed on the Debian branches to use on all three servers. > That said, I would like to help maintain our MoinMoin installation and > keep it up-to-date. I'm also willing to create custom Debian packages > for any software that needs updates which aren't in our version of > Debian. Assuming we use testing on the frontend machine (as agreed before), there will be a small number of packages to backport (if any). And since the difference between testing and unstable is very small, all that will take to build them for us will be apt-get -b <package_name>. -doc _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
