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Until recently, Ubuntu had a much better story around long term support releases than Debian did. Debian averaged 3 years of support, Ubuntu offered 5. That has
by wiredfool 9y ago
Until recently, Ubuntu had a much better story around long term support releases than Debian did. Debian averaged 3 years of support, Ubuntu offered 5. That has changed with Debian's support of LTS in one of the recent distros.
- gargravarr 9y agoDebian also had a reasonably inconsistent release cycle. Now they've settled on 2 years, it's much more viable to use plain Debian rather than Ubuntu. Ubuntu has always been about user-friendliness. I've never found the extraneous bits necessary for admin'ing a server from bash.