On Tuesday 03 November 2009 20:49:58 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with > some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been > wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it > on a server). > > Im now slowly being won over with others telling me how successful their > ubuntu server installs have been, so now Im considering using ubuntu server > edition. > > My question is ...... the next LTS version is 10.04, but my deployment will > likely be in January. What do people think the best course of action is? > install 9.04 and upgrade, install last LTS (I think 8.10 ??) and upgrade, > install last LTS and dont upgrade or go my traditional route and use Centos > or Debian. I really hope this does not become a distro flame war, its > really not intended (or wanted), just some idea's and hopefully experience. > Unless people have specific reasons they would not use Ubuntu on a server, > I am more interested in hearing thoughts on the Ubuntu upgrade path rather > than using a different distro (unless of course it is justified, not just > distro preference).
I ran my server (LAMP Mail and DNS) on ubuntu for a couple of years without problems and with quite positive impressions. Eventually I needed new compiler and qt4 support for my mythtv and at that time I let my preference for yast prevail. The advantage of LTS was a quite nice LTS-LTS++ upgrade where as upgrading version to version was much more iffy - sometimes OK, not always So if you were going ubuntu i'd install the last lts then upgrade and not 9.10 to next LTS. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
