Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Andy Buckley <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > In short, Fedora solves a lot of the problems that push people to > Ubuntu. I wouldn't want to use it on the servers, but I'm writing this > from a Fedora desktop. I'm not sure I'd be happy with Fedora on servers, either! But (IMO) Ubuntu is a very good server OS: it has excellent quality control, explicit server distributions and long term support (LTS) releases to pander to the stability-is-everything server-admin mentality. I already use Ubuntu on 4 heavily-used servers (running mail servers, mailing lists, databases, web servers, version control server, Java app server, login shells, development tools etc.) and have found it to be a very stable platform. Andy PS. Use of a non-standard platform for the HepForge login machine is also one way to address the HEP OS monoculture... or discourage use of the login box as a compile farm: either is desirable! -- Dr Andy Buckley Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology Durham University 0191 3343798 | 0191 3732613 | www.insectnation.org