On 22/02/10 12:07, Brian Chivers wrote:
> As some of you will know I'm a recent convert to Ubuntu from mostly RH /
> CentOS. I've been playing around with Ubuntu 9.10 in our virtual
> environment and will soon be bringing some production servers on-line
> but the length of updates does worry me slightly. I've been using CentOS
> as it has a really long life cycle (7 years) and some of our servers
> just "sit" working for years on end without much care and attention (yes
> I know that's bad but they work so I don't fix them)
>
> Now I'm using Ubuntu I see that 9.10 has an 18 month life cycle and this
> might not be brilliant for things like our VLE (Moodle) that will need
> to work without much downtime for a couple of years.
>
> Now the $100 question, then the next Ubuntu LTS is released(April I
> think I read somewhere) with I be able to upgrade from 9.10 to it ?? The
> box will be fairly standard stuff like MySQL, Apache, PHP & bits like
> that, nothing too custom ?
>
> Thoughts please :-)
Unless Ubuntu is actually giving something CentOS doesn't have, stick
with CentOS ;-)
If you still want to proceed with Ubuntu, you really need to stay with
LTS versions as the upgrade will have been tested. Can you wait till April?
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