is UCE going to have long term support?

mainly this is toward dk as he is the man behind the plan!!! but i plan on using UCE server for my server for web hosting...but i want to know when or if it will lose support but if it does what will i have to do for my server...

stlsaint said: mainly this is toward dk as he is the man behind the plan!!! but i plan on using UCE server for my server for web hosting...but i want to know when or if it will lose support but if it does what will i have to do for my server...

I plan to support as long as possible off course. But the serve isntall is normal install, you could get support from normal ubuntu forums. As for individual application support, you could get from respective website, except.

DK

stlsaint said: but i want to know when or if it will lose support but if it does what will i have to do for my server...

If source code is available, long term support _shouldn't_ be an issue.

That said, what type of support are you wanting to be available?

jonathon

just like ubuntu comes out with a distro every 6months...im not expecting this for UCE but i just dont want to setup my server for my site just to have it unsupported in a year...support as in...updates, bugs, upgrades, etc!

stlsaint said: but i just dont want to setup my server for my site just to have it unsupported in a year...support as in...updates, bugs, upgrades, etc!

Do you think a small company could have a viable business, by offering support for a Christian orientated Linux distribution? (IOW, could they make money from selling support contracts, etc?)

jonathon

stlsaint said: just like ubuntu comes out with a distro every 6months...im not expecting this for UCE but i just dont want to setup my server for my site just to have it unsupported in a year...support as in...updates, bugs, upgrades, etc!

First of all, majority of the software are available from ubuntu repository, so as it would have updates, upgrades etc., according to life cycle of ubuntu.

As for ubuntu ce, you could always ask in the ubuntuforums if there are troubles.

DK

I think UCE both regular and server is going to have to get bigger in terms of those who are part of the project.

Tho, the ubuntu christian edition is getting bigger and I do think in the future the project will get big enough to support LTS.

Churches could save a lot of valuable money by using Ubuntu Ce instead of Windows.

480silverton said: Churches could save a lot of valuable money by using Ubuntu CE instead of Windows.

Going back to what I wrote earlier, do you think those churches would sign support contracts for Ubuntu Christian Edition, or "generic" Linux support for Churches, Schools, and similar institutions?

To be viable, a business needs to generate at least US$1,000,000 in revenue the first year, and average a minimum of US$5,000,000 per year, within five years.

A _rough_ business plan:

• White box maker/distributor;
• Migration to Ubuntu Christian Edition;
• Analog to digital migration;
• Hard copy to digital migration;
• Support for all software installed;
• Support for all hardware installed;

Products/services/support to offer are:

• Asterisk server, with the required hardware. (This handles phone/fax/sms/voicemail/picture-phone/etc requirements.);
• Webserver, if they insist on doing it internally.(This probably should be located at a company that specializes in web hosting.);
• Security orientated server;(Anybody else noticed the increase in the number of churches that have 7/24 video cameras for both the inside and outside of their building? (I've been in churches that had more surveillance equipment that the bank that was next to it.))(The main expense here is the hardware.);
• Linux based Digital recording studio;
• The Church office server. (LAMP with Koho, Wikimedia, LedgerSMB, for internal use _only_);
• Standard church office client/terminals;
• Media centre for each sanctuary & chapel;
• Church Library checkout system (Koho clients. Can be part of the standard terminal used at the facility);
• Sunday School/Bible Study/Small Group Meeting room/Classroom terminals;
• Standard school teacher clients. (This is for the parish school teachers, etc.);

Migrating existing electronic data to Linux;

Migrating existing hard copy data to electronic formats;

Migrating existing analog content to digital format. (This can, but need not include digital remastering of that content.);

jonathon