Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In BANLkTi=m6C59fqnTkzdR=cgmzg178qw...@mail.gmail.com, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: With Ubuntu (I believe) you get 5 years for a server and 3 years for a

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In BANLkTi=m6C59fqnTkzdR=cgmzg178qw...@mail.gmail.com, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: With Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 07:08:54AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In BANLkTi=m6C59fqnTkzdR=cgmzg178qw...@mail.gmail.com, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 6,

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:37:16PM -0700, Mark wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: With Ubuntu (I believe) you get 5 years for a server and 3 years for a desktop if you go with an LTS release. What packages are server packages and what ones are desktop packages? I don't know. It would be nice to see a list

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110406231712.gb7...@aurora.owens.net, Rob Owens wrote: With Ubuntu (I believe) you get 5 years for a server and 3 years for a desktop if you go with an LTS release. What packages are server packages and what ones are desktop packages? According to documents on Canonical's site, there is no

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In BANLkTi=m6C59fqnTkzdR=cgmzg178qw...@mail.gmail.com, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: With Ubuntu (I believe) you get 5 years for a server and 3 years for a desktop if you go with an LTS release. What packages are server packages and what ones are

Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote: If you need more support than Debian provides and= 5 years, install an Ubuntu LTS. Just to clarify, Ubuntu LTS releases are 5 years for the server

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote: If you need more support than Debian provides and= 5 years,

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote: If you need more

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote: Are we seriously going to argue about which version of Ubuntu is supported for how long? I

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Mark
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote: Are we seriously going to

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: 10. Can I install server packages on an Ubuntu Desktop installation and vice versa? Yes – Ubuntu’s flexibility makes it easy. The Ubuntu software repositories do not isolate packages to particular types of

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: Someone that doesn't necessarily want to upgrade on Debian's schedule.  With Ubuntu, you can get 5 years, as opposed to Debian's ~3 years.  With SLE* you can get 10 years.  I'm not sure about RHEL, but I think

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:37:16PM -0700, Mark wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: All fine pointshere you go: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users As

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In BANLkTi=99cw8hdkx1ozsm1g8z+y+ay7...@mail.gmail.com, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: Someone that doesn't necessarily want to upgrade on Debian's schedule. With Ubuntu, you can get 5 years, as opposed to Debian's ~3 years.