At Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:21:08 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
- Ubuntu really needs more frequent total updates (it is not a
long-term stable release). The Ubuntu system that was on the local library's server was unable to get updates (apt-get would fail -- I ended up manually downloading packages and installing by hand (using raw dpkg commands -- ala using raw rpm instead of yum).
Ubuntu has the LTS releases, which are long term stable releases. They are supported for five years after release.
I run Ubuntu along with other Linux distros for various purposes and I've never had an update problem with it. Perhaps that system was pointing to a flaky mirror?
I don't really know. The guy who set it up originally was somewhat unhelpfull. I'm guessing he didn't use a LTS release and did not really set things up well. I took over management of the system without really any experience with Ubuntu (or Debian).
Perhaps it is getting trendy to beat up on non-Centos distros here on the Centos list?
No, I don't think so, *I* just had a bad experience dealing with a Ubuntu setup and had problems dealing with it. And generally found a marked *lack* of support from the Ubuntu forums or from the guy who originally set the system up. For *me* it was just easier to install CentOS, and having done so, things just worked better. I have set up CentOS for other 'non techies' and things have worked well.
Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/
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