Ubuntu a poor choice for servers

[David Abrahams]

Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Adriano Varoli Piazza" <moranar at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> 2006/7/10, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com>:
>>>> Well, sorry if the subject seems troll-ish, but I thought it would
>>>> probably get the attention of someone who counts.  I really want to
>>>> use Ubuntu, but as of now, I'm installing Fedora...
>>> Sorry if the answer seems trite, 
>> Doesn't.
>> 
>>> but since you do give positive criticism, did you post the bugs in
>>> launchpad?
>> Launchpad?
>> 
>>> You seem to have gone over this carefully.
>> I reported the LVM-only bugs for Breezy (probably not in the right
>> place),
>> and the person responsible actually got back to me.
>> Unfortunately, doing a proper bug report for the LVM-over-softraid
>> would mean blowing away my Fedora installation -- which is now running
>> LVM over dmraid **out of the box**.  Or I suppose I could try it on an
>> old laptop that sits idle.  But honestly, I don't think you can miss
>> the problems.
>> 
>
> I saw this too - filed a few reports, but wasn't exactly sure what was "expected".

Does this describe the problem you were having?

  http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/msg/db0acb6616203668

The solution there, if you hack it into the running linux that does
the install, worked for me.

> I am waiting for edgy CD images to be built so I can start doing pxe

Sorry, I don't know what pxe is.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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