Hi
Thanks for the info.
Just running "normal" ISP services like dhcp, dns, webserver and so
on.
Main focus is the long support, maybe I'll wait for 10.04 LTS - so I
got
support to the year 2015 :)
If you are going to pick Ubuntu because of the more predictable and
long-term support[1], make sure the packages you need are in the
repository 'main' and not in 'universe'. If you have to use packages
from universe, I'd be careful. They do not have official security
support for the same time but are 'supported by the community'. I've
seen very sad states of packages in Ubuntu 'universe', there were even
known broken kernels released in 'universe'. 'Main' is generally very
nice, though.
On Debian all packages are officially supported equally good or bad by
the security team, but generally for a shorter time.
Long story short:
If you can cover your needs with Ubuntu 'main', go for Ubuntu. If not,
I'd rather use Debian.
You can check in what repository a given package is by searching for
it on http://packages.ubuntu.com
Just my 5 cents
mauro
[1] Debian is trying to adress its problems in that respect with a
fixed release schedule, but it remains to be seen whether Debian pull
it's act to gether without going under in flame wars on debian-devel :)
Am 28.01.10 16:23 schrieb "Olivier Beytrison" unter <[email protected]
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We have serveral servers running with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS here (every
linux
server which doesn't need Suse to run oracle or novell products in
fact).
I'm really happy with them, very stable, and if you're not looking
for
the latest software version (like tomcat 6 ect) the available
packages
works very well.
Schlageter Benjamin a écrit :
Hi Swinog,
I wonder if someone has any experiences with Ubuntu as server
distribution?
Till this day, we use only Debian - but to the end of Debian 4.0
we must
upgrade
every server to get still security patches.
Now I consider to change to Ubuntu with the 5 year LTS versions.
Cheers,
Benjamin
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