Chris, Darald,
On 2011-11-24 00:31, Chris Travers wrote: > Hi; > > Just a few notes to anyone who may be looking for recommendations. > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:21 AM, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am also not trying to start any kind of distro war! > > Noted. >> >> I switched from Fedora for business use because I got right tired of >> having to update every six months (or so). Upgrading sometimes left >> me >> with issues (I am a serious user NOT a hacker so I still am not very >> proficient at troubleshooting) that cost me a lot of time and >> sometimes expense. So I made a decision to switch to Debian because >> I >> liked the idea of longer term upgrade cycle. I would like to stay on >> such for precisely that one reason - - I do not like to change >> systems >> twice a year. I tend to stick on a Fedora version till the end of it's supported life so I get about 11 months or so. Having said that though, Fedora IS the bleeding edge for RH . . > First, as a Fedora user let me say that without a doubt it is a very > lousy server OS. I would not recommend running business servers on > it. Could you elaborate a little? I have always been pretty happy with it . . > I develop on it because it gives me early warnings for the kinds > of issues that may pop up with the RHEL-family of distros. which is what it is meant for of course . . > So I do > run LedgerSMB on it in an eat-your-own-dogfood sort of way, so my > failure to follow my own advice here is rather deliberate. > > For non-dev installations of LedgerSMB, in my opinion, you really > need > a distro with long-term support. This means one of: > 1) RHEL and friends (CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc) > 2) Debian Stable > 3) Ubuntu LTS (and friends, like Mint LTS) > 4) Anything else with a long support cycle. > > The problems that Darald brings up are real ones. There may be > advantages for us devs ignoring these and working on short-term > support releases ourselves. However I would not today use these in > setting up servers for customers. Agreed. > Debian is not a bad distro, and neither is Scientific Linux. I might have a look at a virtual SL setup now on your recommendation! Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
