[K12OSN] needed: recommendations for Linux flavor with ongoing support

[Jim McQuillan]

Rob,

That's an excellent question.  Unfortunately, I don't have the answer 
either.

It gets especially muddy, when your server is an LTSP server, serving 
desktops to thin clients.

I think what you'll find is that server-type things, like the kernels, 
apache, samba, postgres and others will have security updates for 5 
years.  But, desktop things, like Gnome Firefox will only have updates 
for 3.

Jim.


Rob Owens wrote:
> Jim, is there a list of packages which qualify as
> "server"?  Ubuntu 6.06 is only supported for 3 years
> on the desktop, but I've never seen an explanation of
> how "server" and "desktop" are differentiated.
>
> I realize you're the LTSP guy, and not the Ubuntu guy,
> but I figured I'd ask...
>
> -Rob
>
> --- Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> John,
>>
>> Ubuntu 6.06 will indeed be supported for 5 years
>> (well, about 4-1/2 is 
>> left).
>>
>> And, you don't have to pay Canonical or anyone else
>> a dime to get the 
>> updates during that time.
>>
>> Jim McQuillan
>> jam at Ltsp.org
>>
>>
>>
>> john wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am in the process of moving a web-server off of
>>>       
>> Fedora 4 and onto a flavor
>>     
>>> that will be supported for a while. I am looking
>>>       
>> for advice.  I am thinking
>>     
>>> about Ubuntu LTS 6.06 because of the commitment by
>>>       
>> Ubuntu/Canonical to
>>     
>>> support it for 5 years. I am assuming (perhaps
>>>       
>> wrongly) that updated .deb
>>     
>>> packages will be available to the community for
>>>       
>> the same period even if we
>>     
>>> don't purchase support from Canonical. Does anyone
>>>       
>> else have any advice to
>>     
>>> render?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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