Jeff Waugh wrote:
We are making a lot of noise about our desktop support, and certainly the default install from the CD is a complete desktop/laptop distribution...
However, if you type 'custom' at the install boot prompt, you'll get a nice, complete UNIXy base system with all the stuff you'd expect, diagnostic tools, etc. Our base includes things that would be appropriate on both a server and a desktop. On top of the base, you can install a wide array of supported FOSS server apps, and pretty much anything from Debian if you choose to use the unsupported 'universe' selection.
So, we're talking about desktop a lot, but we're 100% supporting servers. :)
Fundamental questions to ask are:
1. What kernel version does it come with ? 2.4.x or 2.6.x ? (My experience indicates difficult to upgrade from 2.4.x to 2.6.x if one does not know the configuration difference between the two, but easy if one knows; with unexplained OS freezing, IO collapsing, etc.) As we know, Linux as an enterprise server is even made more superior to MS with 2.6.x, its sophisticated journalling file system, strategy of pre-emptions that makes it a smarter OS, a choice among a range of file systems, etc.
2. What is the default file system ? ext3, reiser, jfs, xfs ? (I prefer ext3 for boot partition, but prefer reiser4 for application file system, but not a problem as patch 2.6.8.1-mm2 provided by A Morton. 2.6.8.1-mm4 is now available from his site).
3. Does it support RPM based software management ? What similar database software management is provided ?
4. Any super-doper features exclusive to Ubunto ?
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