which release to use?

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> All great advice, but again, ltspfatclient does not work on hardy, so
> if you want that, you have to upgrade to Ibex...
>

Interesting. Can you tell me in brief why it does not work in Hardy?

Sameer

> David
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Jordan Erickson
> <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net> wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> I use Hardy for all of my Ubuntu/LTSP/Edubuntu sites (9 total so far). I
>> agree with you 100% on your stance regarding sticking with a longer release
>> cycle. I see no reason to move to Ibex. I did the quick release cycle thing
>> in the Dapper -> Gutsy days, before I learned about SRUs and backports. It
>> takes some elbow grease to get new features/bugfixes into LTS, but that's
>> what we, the community, chime in to accomplish, no? For example, I am
>> currently involved in SRUing the infamous Firefox 3 entropy issue to Hardy.
>> The fix was released for Jaunty. It actually kinda makes me laugh to even
>> hear about Jaunty, but IANAP and obviously they need to think way further
>> ahead than I do in regards to releases.
>>
>> Take a look at these links for more information. Again, IMHO, and with
>> administrating 9 *buntu LTSP sites, Hardy is the sensible, sane choice.
>> Nobody that administrates a larger number of systems has time for a 6 month
>> release cycle when you're trying to sustain a stable environment. Luckily,
>> with *buntu, you can choose either route.
>>
>> http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/sru-needs-you/
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jordan/Lns
>>
>>
>> john wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> David I was under the impression that Hardy was the current LTS
>>> release of Ubuntu/Edubuntu. From my point of view (school tech person)
>>> a stable, supported version of LTSP is more useful than the a more
>>> rapidly moving one.  As the person who supports not only LTSP but all
>>> of the other network stuff that happens in a school district I don't
>>> have the resources to rebuild/test/re-intigrate ubuntu every release
>>> cycle. What are your thoughts?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:28 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sameer Veerma,
>>>>  You shuold be using intrepid Ibex. Many changes happend in Hardy
>>>> which I haven't had the time to support. It works just fine under
>>>> intrepd ibex 8.10. If you run into trouble, u can find me lounging on
>>>> #edubuntu and #ltsp. I'll gladlly make it work for you.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> David (nubae) Van Assche
>>>> www.nubae.com
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> We've had a LTSP lab for a while now, but it runs on Gutsy. We are
>>>>> planning to redo the server with a newer base and try out the
>>>>> fatclient setup.
>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients What I'd
>>>>> like to ping the community on is whether to use Hardy (8.04 LTS) with
>>>>> backports or use Intrepid (8.10). Our main reason to look at Hardy is
>>>>> the LTS aspect.
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> Sameer
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>>>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>>>>> San Francisco State University
>>>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>>>>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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