which Ubuntu would you use for LTSP for next two years?

[Karl Goetz]

john wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been through a successful first round of testing using Ubuntu
> 6.06 and LTSP 4.2 (two servers, 36 clients, six months) and now I am
> ready to put in a much more robust installation, double the number of
> clients and hopefully leave this system in place for the next two
> years without significant re-working midstream. So my question is what
> would YOU use and Why if you wanted to finish this task by the end of
> the summer? My criteria are working, stable and supported.
>
> 1) Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and LTSP 4.2 since 6.06 will be supported for
> several more years (any plans to backport LTSP 5 to Ubuntu 6.06)?
>   
personally i'd go with 6.06, but if you /need/ ltsp5 for some reason,
feisty might be the go.
> 2) Fiesty/Edubuntu with ltsp 5.0
> 3) Centos (slightly provocative, I know) or whatever stable gets LTSP 5 next?
>   
centos probably doesnt have crap package management like the RHEL3
systems i'm dealing with, but if its still this bad, i'd never touch
anything rpm :)
kk

> I didn't mention Gutsy since it doesn't look like it will be baked
> until October?
>
> I'll be interested to hear your answers.
>
> John
>
>   


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