On Monday 02 May 2011, Tim Johnson elucidated thus:
> 1)I would *never* (at this stage anyway) use ubuntu as a server,
> my ubuntu workstations are closed to the outside world. I don't
> have to fear that an update might open a security hole. If a
> customer insisted on my building an ubuntu server for him/her, I'd
> refuse.
This is not flame bait, but could you expound on the reasons?
Considering it's based on Debian, do you also not trust Debian as a
server? To my knowledge (which could be WAAAAY off) there is not a lot
of Canonical-specific code in the server packages, which should mean
it's not much different than Debian (or upstream).
Disclosure: I've used Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and RHEL in server
capacities. All have run well. No pain, except the
distribution-specific config-file tweak (such as different layouts for
Apache, etc.).
j
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