I don't think there's a need, for those projects at least. - rvm makes ruby builds so easy and consistent that packages aren't really required (and you get lots of other advantages over a systemwide install); - nginx has to be rebuilt to change passenger or other module versions, so packaging it isn't practical.
Ben On 28/11/2010, at 1:17 AM, Mike Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Over the past decade my preferred distro has changed from Redhat to SuSE to > Ubuntu. > > RedHat and SuSE each took turns for the worst IMO. Each time this happens > I've found distrowatch useful for checking out what's available. You can also > get an idea of popularity from this site. > > Does anyone on this list know of good Ubuntu Personal Package Archives for > the some of the fast moving projects us Ruby folk rely on? i.e. Ruby, nginx, > etc? > > I've been thinking of creating some but there will be some work to maintain > them so if someone else is already doing a good job I'd rather take advantage > of that. > > thanks, > > Mike > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Michael Cindric > <[email protected]> wrote: > Same we have been using ubuntu for years for all our apps. Simplest to use > always works and the support for the packages seems to be the best. 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If you have received this message in error > please notify sentia immediately > > On 27/11/2010, at 10:45 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I used to choose Ubuntu but my customers have security ideas that opt > > for Centos, so I use that currently. > > > > On Nov 27, 10:36 pm, Matthieu Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 ubuntu server > >> > >> - it just works, on pretty much any recent hardware > >> - it's easy to script installs > >> - apt-get install is good enough for most things > >> - custom installs rarely give problems > >> - I've had servers running for years without reboot > >> > >> they ubuntu guys are doing an awesome job. > >> > >> - matt. > >> > >> On 27 November 2010 18:43, 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? 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