Ubuntu has long been a favorite of mine (LTS anyway). We run 700 physical servers all on 12.04 or 14.04. For anything critical we have puppet ensure packages are a specific version (MySQL. Sphinx, Nginx) haven't had an update break anything yet.
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, Aaron Toponce <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:29:51PM +0000, Lonnie Olson wrote: > > However, I disagree with your example of Ubuntu. It may be based on > Debian > > testing, but it gets as much focus as Debian stable. Has long term > service > > releases that are supported for 5 years. Can be supported professionally > > by Canonical (it's maker). Is fully supported as an OS for many > enterprise > > applications like VMware, even more than Debian itself. > > It gets a lot of attention and focus, but it doesn't have the QA process > that > Debian has when migrating their testing release to stable. The primary > focus is > to release LTS every two years in April. Only once was this held back, in > 2006. > At XMission, we run Ubuntu LTS servers, but we make it a point to wait for > a .1 > release before upgrading to the next LTS. More often than not, the initial > LTS > release is fairly buggy. > > -- > . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . > . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o > o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
