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"""Does anybody have experience with Ubuntu Server?""" Ubuntu is great. We decided to go for Ubuntu because at the time we made that decision, Debian was still
by st3fan 19y ago
"""Does anybody have experience with Ubuntu Server?"""
Ubuntu is great. We decided to go for Ubuntu because at the time we made that decision, Debian was still at 3.1 and very outdated. They have played catchup since then and 4.0 is much more modern (i'm mostly talking about more recent versions of popular stuff like postfix, postgres, mysql, gcc, etc.).
We standardized on 6.06/LTS but I've been also been playing with the 8.04/LTS release that is coming up. Looks very nice and we will probably switch to it. For new installations. Old stuff still runs rock solid.
- ichverstehe 19y agoBut I suppose the server-edition is not as 'bloated' as desktop? Personally I'm not much for using Ubuntu on the desktop, because the standard installation contains way too much bloat. Like a `bluetoothd` running standard. But if the server-edition comes pretty 'unbloated' out of the box, I might consider that for my next setup.
- rob 19y agoThe default installation is pretty bare just like Debian. I've had no issues with it, and it does offer more up-to-date software compared to Debian (as well as Python 2.5 being the default unlike Debian, if you're using that).