Re: [bitfolk] Ubuntu Intrepid and beyond

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Author: C J K Tan
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To: Andy Smith
CC: users
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Ubuntu Intrepid and beyond
Andy,

barium.vps.bitfolk.com currently runs Ubuntu Intrepid. Would you
recommend that I "upgrade" to Debian Lenny?

Thanks a lot.


Ken
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On 2009-03-19 14:34 -0000 Andy Smith (andy@???) wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:34:00 +0000
> From: Andy Smith <andy@???>
> To: users@???
> Subject: [bitfolk] Ubuntu Intrepid and beyond
>
> Hi,
>
> I thought I better point out - the reason that Bitfolk does not
> offer Ubuntu Intrepid is that the Intrepid Xen kernel will not work
> on anything except Ubuntu Intrepid host server, and Bitfolk does not
> run Ubuntu.
>
> I reported this as a bug ages ago and the outcome was that they
> don't consider it a bug, have no intention of changing this (will
> not be fixed in Jaunty or any later release either).
>
> So if you are planning to upgrade to Intrepid please bear in mind
> that you will need to use a non-Intrepid kernel, such as the one
> from Hardy, or an upstream one or something like that. Basically I
> do not recommend it.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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