Hello Jeff!
Friday September 21 2018 19:54, you wrote to All:
> So, I have resisted upgrading Ubuntu Linux on the BBBS machine which
> currently runs Ubuntu 16.10. I have recently to upgrade the OS on the
> BBBS to possibly a NON-Ubuntu flavor of Linux. I have Debian, CentOS,
> and Linux Mint recently as well as some rather specialized versions of Linux.
> But haven't decided on a flavor yet. I am doing a backup of
> the 450,000 files in the BBBS home directory as I type. :-)
> Anyone with any thoughts? I am mainly interested in stability as I
> have plenty of PC's to use to experiment on.
Test one's that have a LTS policy and releases.
The other in the main have a tendancy of upgrading every 6 - months which is a
right royal pain to deal with as 9 times out of 10 upgrades do not work out as
planned (the disto people or users).
Ubuntu is one but CentOS may be another and no doubt there are others.
The LTS distros are supported for a five year cycle with a upgrade facility for
the next version of the LTS so should work well BUT do not upgrade for a few
months after release - let other work the bugs out.
Vince
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