Ubuntu is focused on trying to be easy to use, and so it does things like make the bootloader difficult to access, package a huge amount of stuff by default, an

Ubuntu is focused on trying to be easy to use, and so it does things like make the bootloader difficult to access, package a huge amount of stuff by default, and include relaxed security. In fact, the default configuration for Ubuntu is not even to have a password for root, but just to give unlimited access to the main user via sudo. At the same time, Canonical (makers of Ubuntu) are not very interested in the server, at least compared to Red Hat and SuSE. So you get big regressions in server-related functionality like the one described in this article. Things not to use on a server: Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo Things to use on a server: CentOS, RHEL, SuSE, possibly Debian, any of the BSDs.