at the risk of dragging this offtopic.. I am not advocating this based on distro choice.. if i had my druthers i'd be using slackware.. i have been a slacker since way back. but, slackware is only NOW available on 64-bit, debian doesn't sleep well on my laptop, and ubuntu Just Works. I don't trust fedora because it was created as a testing ground for applications and features that would eventually show up in RHEL. i don't trust Ubuntu (even LTS) because it tends to borrow too heavily from Debian testing and unstable. for me, a server (production grade) would be running Debian Stable, RHEL/CentOS or some other tested and stabilised distro. even if i have to give up shiny features for stability. and yes i don't trust ext4 for production grade work yet. i guess i am a paranoid throwback to the old days where you didn't trust a distro until you had given it a year or two. but that's just me. but i must say, koha is an awesome project. soon my intimate association with it will end as the project comes to a close. but it was a pleasure working with all of you guys Suchetha On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Indranil Das Gupta<indradg@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
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
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