Ubuntu a poor choice for servers

[Joao Inacio]

On 7/11/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:36 +0800, Charles Yao wrote:
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> > So what would you guys recommend for servers? thats easy to to
> > administer of course. we do not have any IT staff to configure it if
> > its gonna be complicated.
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> One word:
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> Debian
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> If you want a pointy-clicky distro that comes with an invoice (which
> always makes the suits smile for reasons I can't fathom), then RHEL4 is
> a good choice.
>
> And if the admins run for the hills howling in fear at the very thought
> of loading a config file into an editor, you'd give them SLES
>
> alan
>

For me, consistency == debian, period. i haven't used slackware,
gentoo or the likes simply because i think src-based distros involve
too much work and time.

Debian isn't for everyone, but there is a great deal of good
documentation and after everything is set up right it's a breeze to
maintain. Also, apt simply RULES (i haven't used any rpm-based distro
after it)


This doesn't mean anyone can use it if he/she doesn't have the
knowlege or can invest a large ammount of time reading documentation.

-- 
João Inácio
http://www.jcinacio.com