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> For servers, I believe Ubuntu surpassed Debian in popularity recently You're probably correct, but man is that a sign of our industry's immaturity. Debian i
by eadmund 8y ago
> For servers, I believe Ubuntu surpassed Debian in popularity recently
You're probably correct, but man is that a sign of our industry's immaturity. Debian is a stable and free platform on which to build a product. Ubuntu is a fine end-user distro, but it is neither as stable nor as free as Debian.
- nullcipher 8y agoWhat is unstable about it? I have used it in 3 fortune 500 companies in production and it was great.
- baldfat 8y agoI am truly sad when OpenSUSE and SUSE isn't in the conversation about stability and popularity for servers. They have been rock solid give you the option of a rolling release and paid support if you want it.
- Shish2k 8y agoUbuntu has a fixed update schedule - for a business, "predictable" often beats "good"