[Discuss] Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers

[drew.vanzandt at gmail.com (Drew Van Zandt)]

I used Ubuntu Server for a couple of months, and then switched back to
Debian.  US was a little short on non-mainstream packages, and I didn't see
the point in using it if I was immediately going to need the Debian
repositories in the apt sources anyway.

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Guy Gold <guy1gold at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:14:22PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> >
> >>Even just the installation process leads you to suspect this conclusion
> >>- In Ubuntu, you barely have any choices, package selections, etc.  It
> will
> >>install a GUI for you, and afterward, you can then optionally add/remove
> >>packages.
> >
> > Greetings, I do have a lot to say about Debian,CentOS etc, but maybe
> > later on :). But, with all fairness to Ubuntu server, it does let you
> > have a lot of choice for which packages to install. And its basic install
> > is without GUI and actually with open-ssh server along with a basic
> > Linux system. I assume you referred to Ubuntu Desktop in the installation
> > process.
>
> Ditto.   The Ubuntu Desktop Live and the Server ISO are different
> products.   You wouldn't judge RHEL as a server platform solely on the
> RedHat Desktop/Workstation ISOs and Ubuntu Server shouldn't be judged
> that way either.
>
> Bill Bogstad
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