Ubuntu 8.04 or 9.04
Any insights please?
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9.10 is a somewhat old non-LTS release which expires in April 2011 (less than a year from now).
IMO, it doesn't make any sense to use 9.10; either 8.04 LTS or 10.04 LTS are preferable, but it's up to you. Keep in mind that if you install 9.10, you'll be forced to upgrade to 10.04 in ~9 months, so it doesn't make much sense, in my mind, to start on 9.10.
If you want to be cautious, you can install 8.04 and upgrade directly to 10.04 at some later date, as updates directly between LTS releases is supported by Ubuntu.
Wish there was a "noob" section to this forum. Hate to stick my inexperienced words into the middle of what seems like sophisticated (pat on your backs) chatter everywhere.
I'm sick to death of shared hosting and mastered screaming learning Drupal, so figured I might as well get some real pain and come here. Glutton. And booming deadlines on top of it. Ah heck why not..
Wikipedia has a nice little grid of the current releases:
OK..off and running.. hope my brain doesn't regret this…
might be biting off more than ..well you know..
James
For these reasons, I will probably not move to 10.04 until it is at least 1 year old (late Apr 2011), or possibly even closer to the 8.04 end of life (Apr 2013).
@nw-woman:
I'm sick to death of shared hosting and mastered screaming learning Drupal, so figured I might as well get some real pain and come here. Glutton. And booming deadlines on top of it. Ah heck why not..
If you're planning to host Drupal 6.x based sites on your Linode, I'd suggest sticking with Ubuntu 8.04 since 10.04 has php 5.3.x by default and Drupal (and a lot of its contrib modules) has hard time with php 5.3 at the moment. Core itself is supposed to work out of the box but some related issues have just been resolved (e.g. no stable release has the fix yet).
I'd suggest you to investigate on what the software requirements are for the projects' websites you're planning to deploy. Check for compatibility issues before piling up issues on your production system.