JEOS LAMP Server - 8.04LTS or 9.10?

[Preston Kutzner]

On May 5, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I would like to suggest what I use. I have 3 versions of Ubuntu on
> this laptop but they all share the same /home/karl/ directory. In this
> way I have all my "things" going with me on every version. Very nice!


Karl,

The OP was asking which version the list recommends for his particular  
application, not for yours.  He doesn't want to run 3 versions of  
Ubuntu and share the home partition between them.  I know you're only  
trying to be helpful by posting this, but it would be more helpful if  
you would answer the question that was asked, rather than just posting  
a reply that doesn't really relate to what the OP asked.

To the OP,

I concur that you'd be best off using the LTS versions for server  
applications, unless you need the most recent versions of certain  
apps.  The LTS versions are supported for 5 years (for the server  
version).  Security patches do get back-ported to the TLS versions of  
packages if necessary, so you don't have to worry about having the  
latest release to get a security fix.  And, generally, the LTS  
versions are more stable.  Also, LTS versions can be upgraded straight  
to the new LTS version when it is made available.  For example, 6.06  
(Dapper) -> 8.04 (Hardy) is a supported upgrade path for an LTS  
version, but not for a non-LTS version.  If you decide to go with a  
non-LTS release, you must upgrade every 6 months to the next official  
release.  You cannot skip releases when upgrading non-LTS versions.   
Hope that wasn't too confusing.

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