> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 08:52 -0700, Jerry Franz wrote: >> On 06/14/2011 08:41 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> > >> > Yeah, but some people appear to think (or at least that was what I got >> > from the post of the guy I was replying to) that fedora is good enough >> for >> > production. >> >> *blink* >> >> Absolutely not. I was talking about Ubuntu Server LTS. I don't use >> Fedora for *anything*. I gave up on it back around FC5. >> >> Ubuntu Server LTS is *very* suitable for production use. > ---- > Like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS is absolutely appropriate for server use. > In fact, it's sort of refreshing to set up a new server that isn't > overloaded with bloat from the very start. Setting up a new VMWare image > w/ Ubuntu Server takes at most 10 minutes whereas doing the same w/ > CentOS 5 takes almost an hour (easier just to clone my base install copy > kept for just that purpose). > > I actually use Fedora for my Desktop. It dual boots to Ubuntu but I > don't often use it. The only reason that I ever saw people using Fedora > for production was because the RHEL/CentOS software packages were so > completely out-of-date. Your mail to the cyrus-imapd list today shows that not all software on RHEL/CentOS is "so completely out-of-date" compared to Ubuntu server LTS (and we are talking about CentOS 5!). It really depends what you need, sometimes RHEL/CentOS is ancient, sometimes it's Ubuntu. Simon _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos