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

[kramerjm at gmail.com (Jay Kramer)]

I find Debian to be more responsive and easier to use.

Jay
On Jan 16, 2012 1:36 PM, "Drew Van Zandt" <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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