Another vote for Ubuntu server. I've been running it exclusively in production for about 2 years now (most of my current stuff is on 10.04; the latest one I just spun up yesterday is 10.10) and it's fantastic. My deployment-related babushka deps are focused around Ubuntu too.
Ben On 27 November 2010 20:12, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<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.
