[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Hari Sekhon]

John Edwards wrote:
> 1) You are running Ubuntu 8.10, and the LTS (Long Term Support)
> release is 8.04. So it looks like either you installed the wrong
> version, or someone has upgraded it.
>   
Oops, you're right, I think I changed the version at the developer's 
request. 8.04 was so last week...

> 2) There is not really a separate "server" edition of Ubuntu,
> just a "server" default install which does not include the GUI
> desktop tools and instead offers some groups of server packages.
>
> 3) The debian_version file is included for compatibility with
> *Debian* packages. Ubuntu 8.10 was released in October 2008,
> and the Debian packages would be taken from testing or unstable,
> which at the time was lenny and sid.
>
> If they used only used packages from Debian etch then the
> distribution would *be* Debian etch and not Ubuntu.
>   
I very much dislike the idea of anything SID touching a server.

Maybe it's just my old Debian brain but that doesn't seem like best 
practice...

-h

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