Hello, Thanks for the counter-point link.
As I am a volunteer in this whole area, I would like to ask what may be a beginner's question - how do you test the upgrades correctly? Does this mean I need a second computer identical to my main server (an expensive proposition) and then download/install the upgrades on that and then run random tests on it? Thank you Joseph On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 October 2011 20:43, Joseph Bishay <[email protected]> wrote: >> So I came across this article and wondered if it applied to Edubuntu: >> >> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/diy-it/why-ive-finally-had-it-with-my-linux-server-and-im-moving-back-to-windows/245 >> >> The gist of the rant is that Linux servers are rather unstable because >> any upgrade can kill the server, and therefore you should NOT be >> updating your machine once it's running perfectly. >> >> I get a notice about different packages having available upgrades on >> our production LTSP server at least once a week and for the most part >> I always do so -- is this going to suddenly result in a >> similiarly-described situation? Should I turn off all updates? > > You should probably read the counterpoint by the ZDNet Linux editor: > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-servers-work-just-fine/9793 > > Yes, if you don't know what you're doing, you can break your system > pretty badly. And worse, if you don't know how to recover or don't > have good backups, you can easily get yourself in a world of trouble. > Updates to stable releases do get a week of testing before being > pushed from -proposed to -updates. But you definitely should test full > upgrades (like from 11.04 to 11.10) before deploying as hardware > support unfortunately varies from release to release. > > I strongly recommend that you not disable security updates and I > recommend reading the changelog entries (if using Update Manager, > click Description of Update). Non-security updates are supposed to fix > bugs so they should be more beneficial than harmful but I suppose it > depends on how risk-averse you are. > > Jeremy Bicha > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
