[Koha] Linux Flavour - Koha

[Kyle Hall]

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 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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