I am a big fan of Ubuntu, but I always use Debian for my Koha servers. I've found it far easier and better supported on Debian than Ubuntu Server. That is to say, I've had to do a lot more work to get the correct software versions for Koha to work on Ubuntu Server, where using Debian I rarely if ever have to find specific software versions. For most of my IT career I've been a Debian advocate. When Ubuntu Server came out, I started switching everything over to it. After a couple years I'm now going back to Debian for the server side. I just find it easier to support and work with than Ubuntu Server. These are of course my own experiences, and your mileage may vary ; ) Caveat: At this point I have what is essentially no experience with RedHat. I haven't used it since version 2 or 3. RPM dependencies left me with such a bad taste in my mouth I never went back. I've never had a need to anyway. Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Indranil Das Gupta<indradg@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Suchetha Wijenayake<suchetha@gmail.com> wrote:
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for a production level, i wouldn't recommend Fedora as it is a ... testing (for want of a better word) distro for RHEL.
You are certainly welcome to your opinion. FWIW, we've had progressively tested and deployed Koha 2.x on Fedora x86_64 (back in the days of Core 3 and 4). One of these is a perfectly running University Library setup on 2.2.5 on FC4 since 2005 onwards and still going strong.
in the same way, I don't recommend Ubuntu either.
Inspite of this -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS which ensures 5 years of support for server edition?
Come on, lets have better reasons than distro fanaticism ;-)
Also your options often depend on the type of hardware you are deploying on and what support you need to provide.
For example, we recently had to install Koha 3.0.3 on a HP c3000 BladeSystem based Proliant dual Quad-core Xeon blade. CentOS proved to be the only stable answer, whereas Ubuntu made a mess of the h/w enum. Of course, this has nothing to do with Koha. But the point I'm making here is that for commercial / institution grade deployments, Koha may not be the only deciding factor for the choice of OS. Which leads us back to the question of making Koha behave nicely on other distros as well.
cheers -indra _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha