[hobbit] Distro

[Buchan Milne]

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).

Regards,
Buchan