Comments on: So long Debian servers, welcome Ubuntu

By: Gustavo on Information Technology

Gustavo on Information Technology — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:44:29 +0000

So it was not a bad idea to switch to Ubuntu…

I remember that when I announced that GLM’s servers were being switched to Ubuntu, I got comments on that post and some emails asking me to reconsider this for reasons I didn’t agree with.
Some months later, I read that Wikimedia is switchi…

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:14:54 +0000

@Olaf:

1.- Pootle and Trac, to name a few.
2.- Are you serious?

Cheers.

By: Olaf van der Spek

Olaf van der Spek — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:56:57 +0000

> we often need the latest stable version

Why? What packages do you need to be of the latest stable version?
Note that there’s also backports.

> # Uncomplicated Firewall. An extremely easy-to-setup, basic firewall. It’s just a front-end to iptables-restore, so you can still add/adjust any rule according to your needs.

Do you need one on a server? I’m not running one.

By: its me

its me — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:50:41 +0000

Plus not all packages you want to install on Ubuntu have security support (think universe and multiverse)!

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:55:46 +0000

I agree with Debianist: Ubuntu on servers is hell. They have tried to pack too many “nice” features that end up getting in the way.

By: ksek

ksek — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:22:59 +0000

I don’t think that ubuntu server is better than debian, if you use etch, packages are very old but if you use testing packages are new and even some of them are newer than ubuntu, what ubuntu basicly does is to take debian packages and repackage it for ubuntu. so when you use ubuntu server, indeed you use debian testing. though I like ubuntu, I never think to use it on servers.

By: Debianist

Debianist — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:50:40 +0000

Think about it again because change Debian servers to Ubuntu servers is a bad move, really. I know it by experience.