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

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Guy Gold <guy1gold at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:14:22PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
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>>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.
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> 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