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