It's also worth noting that all Ubuntu LTS releases (12.04, 14.04, etc) carry a full 5 year support period for both the desktop and server variants. And there's a new version every two years for those that want to stay on top of things (as opposed to RHEL/CentOS which only sees major version updates every 3-5 years). We've been using Ubuntu 12.04 (building Rivendell from source since we have some custom patches) and find it quite stable as well as fairly tolerant of newer hardware, etc. We'll likely move to 14.04 after the first point release (probably in October 2014 since we're fond of new features), but if we wanted to, we could sit of 12.04 until April of 2017, plenty of time for those that don't like full systems updates.
Cheers, Andy WMFO Medford On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Lorne Tyndale <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Gary, > > > In the big pic the fast moving revisions of the Linux freeware seems to > be a deal breaker with many RDD > > installations. Just my perspective... if the RDD developer folk in > general were to centralize on a platform > > like RHE or Suse Linux Enterprise Server - SLES with a longer life span > would resolve to a more stable platform > > with greater support. > > This has already happened. CentOS is the platform which has been > selected for this. It has long-term support, for example CentOS 5 won't > reach end of life until March 2017. Rivendell development is done on > CentOS and the appliance DVD is offered as a ready-to-go option for > those who want an appliance DVD. True, it doesn't run on all the > hardware out there. However I can say the same for other OSes out there > too. > > Other builds (the Ubuntu / Debian for example) are not "officially" > supported by Paravel however are provided as contributions from the > community. > > One of the benefits of Open Source software is that you're not locked > into a specific OS. If you don't like running CentOS but you prefer SLES > then you can compile the software under SLES and use your OS of choice. > > Just my $0.02 > > Lorne > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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