[TriLUG] Debian vs. Ubuntu server

[Brian Weaver]

Greg,

I recently ask which distro to use on the list. After reading
everything I decided to go with Debian myself and I'm quite happy with
it. Of course part of my decision was simply that I wanted to learn
yet another distribution and one not based upon RPMs for a change. My
reason for not going with Ubuntu was that it's based upon Debian and
appears to really be focused on the desktop from what I could tell.

Installation of Sarge was really easy and once I learned how to use
apt-cache and apt-get I was set.

-Weave

On 1/6/06, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> Greg Brown wrote:
>
> >After trying to die several times over the past six months my beloved
> >P-II CentOS home server has finally, and fully, bit the dust.
> >
> >I'm going to convert my old very slightly used P4 Win machine to my
> >new server after upgrading the disks to dual 250 gig.  The only
> >question remains the OS: debian or Ubuntu?
> >
> >>From a desktop perspective I love Ubuntu but I'm a bit leary of the
> >server release only because I really haven't used it.
> >
> >What are everyone's thoughts for a home server?
> >
> >Greg
> >
> >
> I suppose I'm still a Debian man, but my reasoning goes like this.  As I
> see it, the main reason for Ubuntu's inception was a) frustration with
> no recent release of Debian, b) desire to beautify the gui interface and
> make that better.  There are probably other advantages, but those are
> the primary ones in my humble opinion.  Given that there's a current and
> reasonably recent release of Debian (Sarge) which will be stably
> supported for the next 5 years by a distro that's been around long
> enough to prove it can do so, and the fact anything deemed a server
> probably shouldn't have X installed, I can't really see any reason to be
> running Ubuntu.
>
> That's my two cents, let the flaming Ubuntu-cheering responses ensue.
> Aaron S. Joyner
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