Distro to run Drupal on

[Keith Smith]

Ok,  Thanks!!


On 2014-12-09 21:27, Todd Cole wrote:
> Yes as soon as it is patched and considered stable it will be
> upgraded. but you can add a ppa that uses PHP 5.6 now but consider it
> as untested and unstable.
> Ubuntu 14.04 end of life on servers is 04/2019 but i have had very few
> issues upgrading from server LTS 12.04-14.04 the migration usually
> gets better and better. Several desktops have had issues doing 12.04
> to 14.04 upgrade but both had many modifications. Todd
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS [2]
> http://phpave.com/upgrade-to-php-56-on-ubuntu-1404-lts/ [3]
> 
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Keith Smith
> <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  And it is running PHP 5.5 which
>> will no longer be supported after June of 2016.  That would be
>> about a year and a half from now.
>> 
>> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is supported through Jan or Feb of 2019 or about 4
>> years.
>> 
>> How does this work?  Does someone patch the unsupported PHP,
>> MySql, and Apache or does Ubuntu add the newer version that is
>> supported by their maintainers?  In other words is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>> going to always contain PHP 5.5 (and maintain it themselves) or will
>> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS pull in a more recent version of PHP that is still
>> supported by PHP?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
>> 
>> On 2014-12-09 07:34, James Dugger wrote:
>> 
>>> Keith. At work we are currently running Drupal 7.34 on RHEL 6.5.
>>> Our
>>> local development vms are running on CentOS of the same version.
>>> I
>>> feel your pain however.
>>> 
>>> I am looking at Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server to run the LAMP stack
>>> needed
>>> for Drupal 8.  I have run Ubuntu for many uses over the past 5
>>> years
>>> and it is a solid server distribution. Ubuntu 's LTS server
>>> versions
>>> are outpacing CentOS and even Debian itself as the web server of
>>> choice.  It is the number one choice for servers in an Openstack
>>> deployment. It is the most provisioned server thanks to Vagrant
>>> and
>>> Packer.
>>> 
>>> Others may disagree but I am seriously considering the move to an
>>> Openstack cloud with our Web servers running 12.04 LTS for
>>> Drupal.
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