[ale] ALE CENTRAL MTG for THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 2007

[David Tomaschik]

Jim Lynch wrote:
> aaron wrote:
>> As part of ALE's recognition of the scheduled October 19th release
>> of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", and in consideration of the upcoming
>> Ubuntu GA / ALE joint Install Fest set for November 10th, our monthly
>> ALE Central Meeting on Thursday, October 11, 2007 will be:
>>
>> "Planning the Future of Ubuntu Server"
>>    presented by Rick Clark
>>    Ubuntu Server Team Manager,
>>    Canonical, Ltd
>>   
> This brings up a question.  IMHO, "server" and "Ubuntu" are mostly
> mutually exclusive.  When I envision servers, I think mostly of
> installations that need high availability and are stable with periodic
> security updates only.  Since Ubuntu support stops after 18 months (So
> I've been led to believe) it doesn't seem to be a good option for
> server distros.
>
> Granted there are some servers that want the latest and greatest, but
> are there enough?
>
> Jim.
Ubuntu LTS editions (Such as 6.06, and 8.04 will be one) are supported
for 3 years on the desktop and 5 years on servers.

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