BitFolk Users December 2011

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Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Ubuntu release party tonight - London)

by Graham Bleach

On 13 October 2011 15:12, Dom Latter <bitfolk-users(a)latter.org> wrote: > I trust I can ask this sort of question here without sparking a > religious war - but what advantages are there in using Ubuntu on > a server? I've been an Ubuntu desktop user for some years [1], > but for servers I generally stick with Debian. Based on about 8 years of running 1-3 low-usage personal servers on Debian and 6 months running ~150 Ubuntu server hosts professionally: Ubuntu Pros: - Hardware certification. I can buy hardware with a reasonable expectation that it'll work with a specific release without spending hours attempting to find out how well individual hardware components work. It's not a perfect scheme, but it's a start. - Vendor support. Dell, VMware and others package various useful bits of software and put them in their own repos. They don't all do a brilliant job at it (e.g. VMware's kernel modules are often several ABI versions behind the latest kernel security release) but they do it. [1] Ubuntu Cons: - Security releases. The Debian security team seem to ship patches first and the Ubuntu ones lag a bit. I don't think there's a hugely compelling reason to migrate between them. G [1] Whether or not you trust an organisation enough to add their repos to your apt sources is another matter. I tend to download the debs and stick them in a local apt repo, but this is significantly less work than packaging the software myself.

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BitFolk Users December 2011