Which ubuntu version install

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 9 19:23:32 UTC 2010


On 03/09/2010 06:29 AM, Tom H wrote:
...
> I did not recommend 9.04 because I thought that it is an LTS release
> but because, since he wanted 8.04, I thought that 9.10 would be too
> recent and untested. Even though I have not had problems with Karmic
> (or even Lucid), you have to err on the side of caution if your goal
> is stability. Look at RHEL and Debian; simply from a kernel
> perspective, they are using 2.6.18 and 2.6.26.
> 
> I moonlighted this weekend and installed two 9.04 servers because my
> client insisted on Ubuntu. He had requested 9.10 but I refused, and he
> refused to go for 8.04; we agreed that I would upgrade the servers to
> 10.04 in June/July. I usually install CentOS on such servers (since I
> work with RHEL) but if I install Fedora, I do not use the most recent
> release either.
> 

Keep in mind that to upgrade to 10.04 you'll need to upgrade to 9.10
first. You would have been able to upgrade directly from 8.04 to 10.04
as they are LTS-to-LTS.
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/alpha1






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