[K12OSN] New thin client recommendations

[Sean Harbour]

>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 13:48:00 -0400
>From: Jeff Siddall <news at siddall.name>
>To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
>        <k12osn at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] New thin client recommendations
>Message-ID: <4DC828D0.6090906 at siddall.name>
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>Anyway, Fedora upgrades kernels throughout the distro's support life
>whereas Ubuntu does not (well, last I checked which was admittedly quite
>a while ago).  So if both Fedora and Ubuntu released a new distro today
>they might be pretty close, but over the next year Ubuntu would be
>further and further out of date.


My own experiences would tend to dispute that, at least for the last 3 years or so. My boxes seem to get new kernels every few weeks. Perhaps you had a default setting changed to disable kernel updates?

cat /home/grub/menu.lst

<snip>
title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-29-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-29-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-29-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-29-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-29-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-29-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-26-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-26-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-26-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-26-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-26-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-26-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-23-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-23-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-23-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-23-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-22-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-22-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.32-25-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.32-25-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.31-22-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.31-22-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.31-20-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.31-20-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro quiet splash 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/mapper/isw_bjhdgdhfhc_Volume01 ro  single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic

title           Ubuntu 10.10, memtest86+
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/memtest86+.bin

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST


Thanks,

Sean Harbour
Senior Network Engineer
Northwest Regional Education Service District
Hillsboro, OR 97124
sharbour at nwresd.k12.or.us
503-614-1448

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