Hi
Thanks for the info.
Just running "normal" ISP services like dhcp, dns, webserver and so on. Main focus is the long support, maybe I'll wait for 10.04 LTS - so I got support to the year 2015 :)
If you are going to pick Ubuntu because of the more predictable and long-term support[1], make sure the packages you need are in the repository 'main' and not in 'universe'. If you have to use packages from universe, I'd be careful. They do not have official security support for the same time but are 'supported by the community'. I've seen very sad states of packages in Ubuntu 'universe', there were even known broken kernels released in 'universe'. 'Main' is generally very nice, though.
On Debian all packages are officially supported equally good or bad by the security team, but generally for a shorter time.
Long story short:
If you can cover your needs with Ubuntu 'main', go for Ubuntu. If not, I'd rather use Debian.
You can check in what repository a given package is by searching for it on http://packages.ubuntu.com
Just my 5 cents
mauro
[1] Debian is trying to adress its problems in that respect with a fixed release schedule, but it remains to be seen whether Debian pull it's act to gether without going under in flame wars on debian-devel :)
Am 28.01.10 16:23 schrieb "Olivier Beytrison" unter <olivier@heliosnet.org
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We have serveral servers running with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS here (every linux server which doesn't need Suse to run oracle or novell products in fact).
I'm really happy with them, very stable, and if you're not looking for the latest software version (like tomcat 6 ect) the available packages works very well.
Schlageter Benjamin a écrit :
Hi Swinog,
I wonder if someone has any experiences with Ubuntu as server distribution? Till this day, we use only Debian - but to the end of Debian 4.0 we must upgrade every server to get still security patches.
Now I consider to change to Ubuntu with the 5 year LTS versions.
Cheers, Benjamin
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