“Mark Shuttleworth has announced at the OpenStack conference that Canonical has received a ringing endorsement from HP in the form of certification for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the ProLiant server systems. Responding to customer demand, HP has decided to officially support the popular flavor of Linux giving sysadmins another flexible software option to leverage their current and future hardware.”
Good. However, it is unclear what version gets certification … I suppose it’s Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server version, not desktop.
In which universe do you think HP[1] would certify the desktop edition for a server, and not the server version?
[1]: Disclaimer: my employer.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/122493/why-is-ubuntu-12-04-removing-…
There is no ubuntu server kernel.
it’s probably centers around the user land and apps available to the server version of Ubuntu as well as the kernel (in this case the single kernel).
There’s still a server edition.
As an IT person who supports servers, Ubuntu is not a distro I would pick.
You want stability and respect for the existing customer base when you pick a server OS.
Instead, here’s what the article quotes Canonical VP Chris Kenyon as saying, ^aEURoeEverything that we have been working on for the past couple of years is crystallizing all at once, things are a bit wild right now.^aEUR
As the article summarizes, “That statement encapsulates the ride that Canonical is on at the present.”
What IT person in their right mind would want to join Canonical on that “wild ride?”
As an IT person who supports servers, Ubuntu is a distro I pick often.
And….what? Ubuntu Server is no worse than any other distro in this respect.
Sure, why not? Change can be a lot of fun.
As an IT person who supports lots of servers, Ubuntu is a perfectly fine distribution that I would pick.
He’s not necessarily talking about changes to the distribution, and even where he is referring to changes those are almost all universally changes to the desktop version.
Ubuntu Server is basically Debian Testing, with a support contract.
In my view ubuntu server is just a productised debian, that has a sales / support representative companies can talk to.
It think I’d stay with suse or opensuse for servers instead of Ubuntu.