[NTLUG:Discuss] Which Server Distro?

[Preston Hagar]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Robert Pearson <e2eiod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dennis' Debian recommendation is a fine one.
>
> Here is the Ubuntu Release Schedule. it looks like we are in between
> LTS releases...
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases>
>
> You might want to install Ubuntu 9.10 (end of life April 2011) as an
> interim fix and then do the online upgrade to 10.04 LTS sometime after
> April 2010. Release 10.04 LTS has a "server" end of life in April
> 2015.
> I have been very happy with Ubuntu 9.04 on the desktop and the
> commentary on the upgrade to 9.10 is good.
>
> I have been very happy with the slow pace of the updates for Linux
> Mint which is based on Ubuntu. Unfortunately it has no server version.
>
> Everybody else seems to have gone to the short cycle upgrade. At least
> in the major "free" Linux players.
>

I primarily use Ubuntu server for the servers I work with and have had
to face this decision recently.  The interesting thing is that the
current LTS (long term support) release (Hardy, 8.04) is supported
until April, 2013 (LTS server is supported for 5 years), where the
most recent release 9.10 is only supported until April, 2011.  I have
been sticking with Hardy now with plans that I will have to reinstall
completely before 2013 (of course if the world end in 2012, I won't
have to worry about that :)  ).

Generally "upgrading" from one release to another on a server always
scares me anyway, so right now I am sticking with the current LTS
release and will have plenty of time to plan a migration path to the
next LTS.

Preston