[sf-lug] Ubuntu vs. Mandriva

[Sameer Verma]

Paul Ward wrote:
> I'm not all that concerned with the ease of use issue, since I'm 
> planning to build a headless server to act as a mailserver, firewall, 
> NAS and maybe a MythTV backend. I'll use the macs to ssh into it, so 
> I'm not really thinking about the desktop manager (I like KDE, but 
> might give gnome a try), and it would probably be fun to set up vnc 
> and do a full remote desktop. I'm aware that any distro can do what I 
> want, I guess I just wanted to know if there were any real differences 
> between a current champ and an old friend. 
>
> Paul Ward
> Sent from my iPhone
I use Ubuntu server 6.06 (LTS - Long Term Support) on my servers. I get 
the advantages of apt-get and the repositories are supported until 2011. 
I haven't tried Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as yet. I understand that direct 
migration from 6.06 to 8.04 (one LTS to another) was a significant 
consideration when designing upgrade paths. At least that's what I saw 
in presentations at Ubuntu Live last year. Maybe others on the list can 
comment.

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
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San Francisco State University
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