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What are your servers running now? Is there an upgrade path from whatever Linux it is? Do you have a lot of custom configurations? Debian is widely regarded an
by keithpeter 12y ago
What are your servers running now? Is there an upgrade path from whatever Linux it is? Do you have a lot of custom configurations?
Debian is widely regarded and typically provides two to three years update support for a given code name (e.g. Wheezy or Jessie). There is a proposal for providing Long Term Support (LTS) for Wheezy as has been done for Squeeze.
- xyby 12y agoI really don't have any custom needs. Any old linux distro will do. But only 2 to 3 years? That is very short. What would be a good alternative with longer support? There must be market for it I guess. Don't companies simply want to run their stuff as long as possible? Many companies still use Windows XP. And that's 14 years old. Any major distris that commit to 10 years of support or something?
- silb 12y agoDebian has a separate long term support project [1] for old stable release that provide security patches beyond the 2-3 years of official support. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
- fredsted 12y agoDo your operations and deployment right, and upgrading shouldn't be an issue.
- keithpeter 12y agoYes, RHEL has 10 year support periods. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is commercial - you pay an annual subscription for updates. CentOS/Scientific Linux/Springdale Linux are free clones with free updates. Oracle Linux is a free download, but not sure how updates work. Current is version 7 with support until 2024. http://centos.org/ http://centos.org/ PS: if you are asking this kind of question here, you might want to take your local Linux sysadmin for coffee and explain your use cases, applications, hardware spec and likely traffic in detail.