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I mostly see thing the other way: for a machine or two, especially a desktop, Ubuntu is great. It made a bunch of decisions for me in advance that are mostly go
by Zak 16y ago
I mostly see thing the other way: for a machine or two, especially a desktop, Ubuntu is great. It made a bunch of decisions for me in advance that are mostly good, and I can override them if I need to. For a datacenter full of servers, I probably have a very specific configuration in mind and don't want anything extra. Debian seems most suited to that scenario.
- sliverstorm 16y agoMost of the time, with disk space as cheap as it is now the extra stuff isn't even worth the time spent deciding what to keep. As for requiring a very specific configuration, most of the time that is only in one corner of the machine. I would even hazard that if you have strict requirements for every facet of the machine that differ from the defaults (and this machine is not handling super-sensitive information, super-high performance jobs, or publicly accessible) then you are doing it wrong.
- Zak 16y agoI don't see it as a disk space issue. Extra stuff installed inherently means more exposure to potential security issues. That's undesirable.