Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com> wrote:
>
>
>> If it's a dedicated production server, look at UBUNTU 6.10 server.
>> If you're planning to connect a monitor and run X-windows ( i.e. I
>> bought a server, but i'm going to use it as a learning platform for
>> LINUX in general also), i'd suggest either UBUNTU 6.10 or 7.04 desktop
>> ( or, start with the 6.10 server, and use apt/synaptic/etc to add
>> whatever additional packages you want )
>>
> No offense, but *if* you have to suggest Ubuntu you should be
> suggesting 6.06 LTS,
oops, pulled the distro number from memory, 6.06 LTS for server is the
one I meant rather than 6.10
> not any of the bleating, errrh, bleeding edge
> and quickly fluctuating versions. In a production server environment
> people commonly aren't eager to update the whole OS every year. I
> certainly wouldn't.
>
> And if you settle for a stable server environment, I, too, would
> rather go with the original debian than with ubuntu. Not that
> I particularly like either of them :}
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andrej
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