[Koha] Linux Flavour - Koha

[Suchetha Wijenayake]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Suchetha Wijenayake<suchetha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
>> 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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