Choosing a distribution

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 20:25 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I had already found that directly from the main Ubuntu site, it
> doesn't say much though does it?!  All it says is that you get a LAMP
> system, which is good, but I was hoping for a bit more detail
> somewhere that would tell me the major differences (and similarities)
> between the various Ubuntus.

Maybe your Google result is different, but for me the third link is
this: http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/index.html

However, I've just found that this is useless for our purpose, too.
Sorry for not checking more closely right away. 

Here's a little more, but not much detail either:
http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu

I think the reason is that at this time, Ubuntu server does not actually
do much. It installs a minimal environment, no X, has good LTSP support
built in, and provides a set of tasks that you can enable (mail, LAMP,
etc.), which will install the appropriate packages. Plus, all packages
in the server edition are guaranteed 5 years of support for LTS
releases.

> Ah but I don't believe sudo or any of the other 'safe' ways of doing
> things really protect you.
(...)
> 
> I prefer to have that # at the end of the prompt telling me to be
> careful!

My root prompt always was red and the user prompt green, but over time
you still stop noticing. sudo of course does not protect against
everything, but it protects against a certain class of error, which to
me is worth it, but YMMV.