On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 18:29 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 13:19:24 Neil Franken wrote:
Hi Guys
I tested XyMon on Ubuntu 7.1 and it was not too difficult to install. We
are now ready to deploy XyMon into production so I am looking at which
Distribution XyMon is the easiest to install and maintain. Getting
things to run on Ubuntu was not a major issue but if there is a easier
distro I would like to use it for now.
IMHO, what distribution is easiest to install on is not the best factor to base your decision for a long-term server.
Either way, most distros are quite easy to get Hobbit or Xymon running on, e.g. Mandriva ships Hobbit (soon Xymon), and I buid the packages for RHEL/Centos as well:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/
(e.g.: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/hobbit/i386/
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/hobbit/noarch/
)
I guess you mean Ubuntu 7.10. I can't remember which are "LTS" releases, but 7.10 is probably already quite a fair way into the support lifetime of the distro (compared to say, RHEL5/CentOS5 or Debian).
If you want LTS, go with Ubuntu 8.04. This has a 5 year support
promise.
Regards,
Buchan