<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 14:04, Sameer Verma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I do not know what runs on teach (I'm assuming its some kind of a server), but I do wonder why we don't use a server distro that doesn't EOL so quickly. We use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS for our campus Moodle installation. 8.04 LTS will EOL in 2013, and 6.06 to 8.04 upgrade was quite painless.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Teach is far from mission critical. Quoth the MOTD:<br><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Last login: Fri Dec 18 21:04:56 2009 from <a href="http://pool-173-79-171-170.washdc.fios.verizon.net">pool-173-79-171-170.washdc.fios.verizon.net</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">You need to know that teach is a development machine which may fail at</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">any moment. Please don't use it to store critical data. It has no</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">uninterruptible power supply, it is not backed up, and it is not</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">carefully monitored by professional sysadmins. You have been warned.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> - Michael Stone, May 15, 2008</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">By the way, if anybody cares to help me maintain teach, do email myself</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><luke@faraone.cc> or the OLPC VIG, <<a href="mailto:olpc-sysadmin@laptop.org">olpc-sysadmin@laptop.org</a>>.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> - Luke Faraone, Jan 24, 2009</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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