On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Larry Brigman <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael > Robinson<[email protected]> wrote: > > I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS > > sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go. > > > > People who run CentOS want something that just plain works and they > > don't expect to reinstall their operating system every 6 months or > > sooner. > > > > Ubuntu seems to be the most popular Linux distribution for desktops > > and it seems to be more current, but I'm not sure I like Ubuntu. > > I don't like having to maintain 2 different Linux distributions. > Well, You could always use the LTS version of both server and desktop. > > snipped from website > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop: Released April 2008 and maintained until > April 2011 – ideal for large deployments. > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server: Released April 2008 and maintained until April > 2013 – ideal for large deployments > > One of the nice advantages of CentOS piggy-backing on RHEL is that it is supported for what seems like forever. There is still a stable release of CentOS 3 with backports and updates. For these kind of distributions there should not be a 3 or 5 year cut off since the systems they are used to build will be running for much longer and need to be extremely stable. When you run CentOS you should thinking about uptime. (I wonder what distro google uses... ) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
