Re: [hobbit] Distro

[Michael Osburn <michael.osburn (at) echostar.com>]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 18:29 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 13:19:24 Neil Franken wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > I tested XyMon on Ubuntu 7.1 and it was not too difficult to install. We
> > are now ready to deploy XyMon into production so I am looking at which
> > Distribution XyMon is the easiest to install and maintain. Getting
> > things to run on Ubuntu was not a major issue but if there is a easier
> > distro I would like to use it for now.
> >
> 
> IMHO, what distribution is easiest to install on is not the best factor to 
> base your decision for a long-term server.
> 
> Either way, most distros are quite easy to get Hobbit or Xymon running on, 
> e.g. Mandriva ships Hobbit (soon Xymon), and I buid the packages for 
> RHEL/Centos as well:
> 
> 
> http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/
> 
> (e.g.: 
> http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/hobbit/i386/
> http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/hobbit/noarch/
> )
> 
> I guess you mean Ubuntu 7.10. I can't remember which are "LTS" releases, but 
> 7.10 is probably already quite a fair way into the support lifetime of the 
> distro (compared to say, RHEL5/CentOS5 or Debian).
> 
If you want LTS, go with Ubuntu 8.04. This has a 5 year support
promise. 

> Regards,
> Buchan
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