Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 06:36:15PM +1000, Tim Starling
wrote:
Yes, there are many different configurations.
Yes, it is a nightmare. We
thought switching to Ubuntu would make it better, but a year on, our
Ubuntu servers still can't do a number of critical tasks, and we now have
not only our ancient FC 3 and 4 servers, essentially unmaintained in the
vain hope that their existence is temporary, in addition to two different
versions of Ubuntu (7.04 and 8.04).
Would it be a dumb question to ask if anyone considered CentOS 5?
Yes it was on the list. Note that the migration problem is not Red Hat
versus Debian, rather it's source install versus package. We could have
migrated to Ubuntu and used the same source install scripts, slightly
modified for the new build environment. But we decided to use packages
instead.
-- Tim Starling