On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Imre Gergely <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/14/2010 09:46 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Imre Gergely <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/14/2010 09:15 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I am having Ubuntu 10.04 server running. >>>> In my previous messages I had mentioned some cron.dead letters in >>>> root's home directory. >>>> I would like to upgrade my production servers which are currently >>>> running on 10.04 to 10.10 release without formatting them. >>>> I am looking for instructions for same. >>>> I have checked the community page for the same >>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades >>>> can some one provide me a relevant how to for the same. >>> >>> Further down on that page is: >>> >>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades#Network Upgrade for >>> Ubuntu Servers (Recommended) >> Yes I had seen this part. >>> >>> But why would you upgrade a 10.04 LTS production server to a 10.10 non-LTS ? >> Sorry I had missed that part what is the difference between LTS and non-LTS >> is non-LTS not better updated or fixed than 10.04 LTS server edition. > > LTS releses are supported longer (5 years on server), but non-LTS > releases receive updates "only" for 18 months. So after 18 months you > won't have security fixes and other bugfixes for 10.10. If you're > planning to keep your server in production for longer than that and > you're using non-LTS, you will have to upgrade to a newer release more > often. Depending on your situation this may or may not be what you want. > > If you install non-LTS over and over, you're getting more recent > software (like newer apache, newer php, newer kernel). If you install > LTS, you're "stuck" with older versions of stuff (then again, there are > backports, too). Again, it depends on your needs. > > I personally have a 8.04 LTS installed which is a bit older but it still > works great, and I don't plan on reinstalling anytime soon. Had I > installed 7.10 or 8.10 back then, I would've stopped receiving updates a > long time ago. Which, again, could be fine if your server is not on the > Internet for example ;) like an internal server for developers, or > something like that. > > (IMHO). > > -- Ok thanks for the detailed reply.
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