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I do agree about debian, and were I to care about a long term installations I would probably go with that (or freebsd, depending on my needs). But again, I don'
by duaneb 14y ago
I do agree about debian, and were I to care about a long term installations I would probably go with that (or freebsd, depending on my needs). But again, I don't think that debian has the user friendliness that ubuntu does, in fact I can't think of any other distribution that works as well (that's not an ubuntu derivative itself).
If you are interested, my typical use case is spinning up a vm for about 5-10 hours of total work while I port my code to linux, and ubuntu is simply the fastest way to do that without snapshotting a clean install (which I really should do).
- sethrin 14y agoLinux Mint has a Debian Edition. I think it's based off Testing rather than Unstable. That would probably be my default recommendation for newbies. Personally I'm using Crunchbang, which is minimalist, lightweight, based on Stable, and comes with a nice set of install scripts for web servers and databases and suchlike. Generally speaking though, if I were moving code between platforms, I would make sure that my staging environment matched whatever the production environment was -- I suspect not Ubuntu.
- duaneb 14y agoHmm, good to know. I don't write web stuff so production environment = generic linux distro, most likely to be ubuntu.