Comments on: Ubuntu Server Edition 8.10: Nice, But Who Uses It?

By: El Chuletero » Blog Archive » Autenticación LDAP con Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (1/?)

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:42:45 +0000

[...] dando implementándolo. Nota: En un principio lo intentamos con la versión 8.10, pero debido a los cambios escasamente documentados en la configuración LDAP decidimos pasarnos a la versión 8.04 LTS, mucho más parecida a la 7.10 en lo que a configurar la [...]

By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:24:19 +0000

I’ve had 6.06LTS, 7.04, and 7.10 on servers before but now I stick with 8.04LTS and don’t want to upgrade until 10.04 unless something unbelievably compelling like hardware incompatibility happens. I find it’s too much time to spend running around updating everything to the biggest best new server, and many software packages seem to be either for an LTS or at least all the instructions are for LTS. Upper management seems to like it more when servers sit stable and don’t need a lot of tweaking too. I’m also a little nervous about not being able to install things I want to on a non-LTS release. All that so say, I don’t have anything against the non LTS releases and am a little envious of them, but it’s not worth the trouble… but that 8.10 muekow addition of local apps is oh so tempting!

By: James Jude

James Jude — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:53:33 +0000

Sometimes, bleeding edge code is required to support new servers. We ran Gutsy on a few servers, which would not work properly with Dapper. Now that Hardy is out, they have been upgraded to the LTS version.

By: Jayson Rowe

Jayson Rowe — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:51:13 +0000

@Willi Eigenmann
I have 8.10 working on Citrix XenServer now (with one issue). If you’d like a walk through, you can e-mail me directly at jayson (dot) rowe (at) gmail and I’d be happy to go through the process with you. It’s actually simpler than the 8.04 instructions.

By: Dragonbite

Dragonbite — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:16:57 +0000

They should run point releases for LTS versions so that it doesn’t get too far behind while not breaking the LTS service time and maintain the codebase.

Red Hat does this, and they drop the support for older point releases after a while but since it is a point release it is not nearly as major an upgrade as a full-blown version upgrade.

Be really cool if they could run a point upgrade every 6 or 9 months and make sure it is an easy upgrade.

By: Leonel

Leonel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:27:08 +0000

@aikiwolfie
The next LTS will be 10.04
Ubuntu LTS is released every 2 years with 5 years server support and 3 years desktop support.

and in the middle the non lts releases are released every 6 months with a 18 month support

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:45:29 +0000

8.10 will give developers a chance to play with the new features before 9.04 arrives. Which will probably be an LTS version.

And support until 2010 is plenty long enough for anybody. Remember if Microsoft gets it’s way we’ll all be upgrading every 2 to 3 years. Ubuntu looks like the better option to me.

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:45:14 +0000

Leonel: you’re completely correct; thanks for pointing out my arithmetical error.

By: Leonel

Leonel — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:30:48 +0000

@Christopher Tozzi :

The NON LTS versions, have support for 18 months, so 8.10 will have support until Spring 2010

By: Daniel Holm

Daniel Holm — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:49:39 +0000

“A Better Ubuntu, But for Whom?”
– For me.

I use the latest Ubuntu and I love it. No need to say more.