Been deploying onto various flavours of Ubuntu server in production for several years now (4-5, I think?).
Weapon of choice (including on Amazon EC2 instances where it's well supported) when not using heroku these days. Mostly my reasons are because it is been by far the least trouble free distro I've used (YMMV) and had probs over the years with RH, Fed or RHEL (CentOS is based on rhel afaik). Regular updates and upgrades are painless and there is a LTS version to pin things to and plenty of "I did this" type tutorials if I need to do something highly unusual with it. It does have some annoyances (ie. meerkat for example having dated ruby and rubygems for example, or java not in the base repositories - eg. if you want to spin up hudson) but I just use rvm to get round those sorts of things and you can always find a web page to show you how to do what you need to. As a solid, no trouble server OS though, I find it pretty peerless. ciao ! Daryl. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi RoRoers, > > Quick survey, what is your current deployment OS of choice and why? > > Reason I ask is there is a lot of movement recently, my current deployment > OS of choice is CentOS, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth and > sometimes has interesting yum problems on updating software, I can get > anything I want installed of course using direct installs, but would like to > get a bit of feedback from our community on what you are using these days. > > For some reason, I look at Ubuntu as just a desktop OS, I know this is > irrational, but I have been seeing more and more ubuntu installs on screen > casts and the like, are people using this because they find it easier? Are > they (gasp) running the GUI on it in production? What is the attraction > here? > > > Mikel Lindsaar > http://rubyx.com/ > http://lindsaar.net/ > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
