Ubuntu 8.04 as LAMP machine?

[Luke L]

P.S. I'm not an Ubuntu expert, merely an enthusiast. If you need more
gritty details, wait for a dev to reply. However, as Ubuntu's packages
are based on Debian, most technical details will be identical.

On 6/9/08, Luke L <lukehasnoname at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu gets its packages for new releases from Debian unstable.
> However, the community is large and any bugs are taken care of
> promptly, esp. on the server side.
>
> Hardy, being an LTS release, will receive regular updates and support
> for the next 5 years.
>
> As far as the diff between Deb and Ubuntu AMP packages, well, Ubuntu
> will have a later version. Also, Ubuntu's AMP install is very easy to
> get up and running. It is toggled at OS install time, or by running
> "tasksel" at console. Within minutes you'll have MySQL, PHP, and
> apache2 running on your server.
>
> Of course, tweaking is always as easy as in Debian.
>
> On 6/9/08, Andrew Hodgson <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Posted this to Ubuntu-users to start off with, but got redirected here.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am interested in deploying Ubuntu as a LAMP machine.  I have mostly in the
> > past used Debian machines, but some of our web developers want to use a
> > higher version of PHP (at least 5.2.4), and Etch comes with an older
> > release.
> >
> >
> >
> > What is the general stability of the Ubuntu packages such as Apache etc
> > like?  I took a brief look at the server, and it seems like some of the
> > packages are coming from Lenny?  What are the differences between the Debian
> > and Ubuntu Apache/PHP/MySQL packages?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> >
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>
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> Luke L.
>


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Luke L.