On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:00, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On my desktop I run Ubuntu. I keep upgrading it to the latest version, > usually a few weeks after it was officially released. > On my server I run Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I don't plan to upgrade it. > When time comes I will rent a new server, put the new version of > Ubuntu LTS on it and move all of my services there. > > When I look at my clients - they tend to run RHEL, Suse or even CentOS a > lot more often than Ubuntu. Also they usually stick to older versions. > Even on the desktop. > In many cases they run unsupported versions of the OS. > > I assume most of the people here also keep their desktops upgraded but > I wonder how do you manage your own servers and what happens at your > workplace/clients? > > regards > Gabor >
For a desktop you can run an unsupported OS, such as an old Fedora. But for a server, use only a supported OS. Server operating systems generally are supported for five to nine years. Just look at RHEL, version 4.9 was released shortly after 6.0 and 5.6. That's a lot of support. Why do you resist upgrading the Ubuntu server? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
