On 06/14/2011 06:19 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Timeliness, dunno. Ubuntu (or fedora) for production? NOT IF I HAVE ANY CONTROL!!! Given how many developers write incredibly fragile code, that is utterly dependent upon a very, very special environment, I guarantee that the almost daily updates will break it, or the New Features! will have changed interfaces....
The LTS server releases are very good. I use them routinely and they have been quite stable. I currently use them for all new 'base metal' server installations with my CentOS systems in VMs on top of them. Over the next few years I anticipate migrating everything at all levels to them as I get more comfortable with it. My only real complaint is having to learn the way a Debian derived system hangs together vs how a Redhat derived system is put together.
And AppArmor has yet to 'knee-cap' me like SELinux has (repeatedly) by breaking previously stable systems. Where I routinely disable SELinux on CentOS, I have yet to have AppArmor interfere with normal ops - ever. It "just works".