Geoff Galitz
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:23:31 -0700
> A major premise for using either distro is their claim for long term support > (LTS). > > I'm curious to know how many folks on this list use either distro and what has > been your experience (and usefulness) of LTS? ------------------------------------------------ In my UC Berkeley days I routinely installed Scientific Linux on new clusters. The long LTS was a major factor contributing to my usage of it. Security updates, in particular, were of high-priority. I'd also do a general update if we made a major change to the cluster (new nodes or some particularly finicky major new code)... so I found the LTS to be quite useful. In terms of general support we were self-sufficient enough that we could apply bugfixes or patches out-of-stream if necessary. -geoff _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf