Comments on: Ubuntu and the state of enterprise Linux http://www.techyblog.com/linux-news/ubuntu-and-the-state-of-enterprise-linux.html Technology Blog and related news. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:52:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.techyblog.com/linux-news/ubuntu-and-the-state-of-enterprise-linux.html/comment-page-1#comment-12 admin Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:25:54 +0000 http://www.techyblog.com/linux-news/ubuntu-and-the-state-of-enterprise-linux.html#comment-12 I agree, Fedora is not suited for a server. The one thing that has me considering Ubuntu as an option, is the Long Term Support (LTS) that they have with the server edition. From http://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS: "With the Long Term Support (LTS) version you get three years support on the desktop, and five years on the server. There is no extra fee for the LTS version, we make our very best work available to everyone on the same free terms. Upgrades to new versions of Ubuntu are and always will be free of charge." And with paid support as an option, http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid it seems that we can start to classify Ubuntu server with Red Hat Entprise and SuSE Enterprise. Although, I haven't yet been sold on this, but just looking for other's opinions. I agree, Fedora is not suited for a server. The one thing that has me considering Ubuntu as an option, is the Long Term Support (LTS) that they have with the server edition.

From http://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS:
“With the Long Term Support (LTS) version you get three years support on the desktop, and five years on the server. There is no extra fee for the LTS version, we make our very best work available to everyone on the same free terms. Upgrades to new versions of Ubuntu are and always will be free of charge.”

And with paid support as an option, http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid it seems that we can start to classify Ubuntu server with Red Hat Entprise and SuSE Enterprise.

Although, I haven’t yet been sold on this, but just looking for other’s opinions.

]]> By: Jonathan Wright http://www.techyblog.com/linux-news/ubuntu-and-the-state-of-enterprise-linux.html/comment-page-1#comment-11 Jonathan Wright Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:55:40 +0000 http://www.techyblog.com/linux-news/ubuntu-and-the-state-of-enterprise-linux.html#comment-11 You only have to look at the support life-cycle of each distribution to see how it's suited for an enterprise environment. I have servers that are coming up to 3 years old and still going strong, and probably will for another two years at least - Dell will actively support any server up to 5 years old. Depending on your need, the last thing you want to do is to have to upgrade the whole distribution between major revisions just to make sure they're getting the latest support and up-to-date security patches, and I don't think 3 years is that long to support (we're running CentOS 4 on most of our's which will be supported until 2010). That's one of the reasons why I disagree with Fedora as a server platform, as unless you upgrade between each release in turn you'll be out in the cold after 18 months. Ubuntu doesn't seam to be that much different - only around 18 months at a time. RHEL is 5 years and that for me pretty much sells the ethos of the distribution and it's suitability to enterprise applications. You only have to look at the support life-cycle of each distribution to see how it’s suited for an enterprise environment. I have servers that are coming up to 3 years old and still going strong, and probably will for another two years at least – Dell will actively support any server up to 5 years old.

Depending on your need, the last thing you want to do is to have to upgrade the whole distribution between major revisions just to make sure they’re getting the latest support and up-to-date security patches, and I don’t think 3 years is that long to support (we’re running CentOS 4 on most of our’s which will be supported until 2010).

That’s one of the reasons why I disagree with Fedora as a server platform, as unless you upgrade between each release in turn you’ll be out in the cold after 18 months. Ubuntu doesn’t seam to be that much different – only around 18 months at a time.

RHEL is 5 years and that for me pretty much sells the ethos of the distribution and it’s suitability to enterprise applications.

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