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There's always Debian! I honestly don't know why someone would run Ubuntu on the server rather than Debian. I did kinda like Ubuntu once upon a time for end-u

by wtbob 10y ago

There's always Debian! I honestly don't know why someone would run Ubuntu on the server rather than Debian. I did kinda like Ubuntu once upon a time for end-user computing (e.g. laptops & desktops), although eventually I gave up on it because it was too painful to customise. But why use it on a server? There's no need for the proprietary blobs it supports, and it's really not targeted at servers like Debian is.

icebraining 10y ago
Ubuntu Server is definitively targeted at servers. I use Debian on my servers, but one reason I know some companies used Ubuntu was because it had a five year LTS program. Debian only started theirs in 2014, and it's not handled by the main Security Team, which might make some people feel queasy.
Karunamon 10y ago
>I honestly don't know why someone would run Ubuntu on the server rather than Debian. Having just had this discussion at work, I can give you a few reasons: * Canonical's ecosystem, including direct support for OpenStack and some homegrown tooling around it like Juju. Also Landscape and MAAS. * 5 years of support on LTS images * Ubiquity, specifically the fact that Ubuntu has enough popularity (well beyond Debian's) that most of its issues are well known, and it has broad 3rd party support * Paid support on the base image (it's not like CentOS/RHEL where you need an entirely different OS to get paid support, you can just buy Ubuntu support) * PPAs (which is really just some tooling on top of a DEB repo, but it's still useful) I'm not sure what you mean by "targeted at servers" when http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server exists.