Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] How long have you been using Linux?
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:23:15AM +0000, John Hunt wrote: > >Debian - as does my firewall. When they go pop I'll probably install
> >Ubuntu Server on them instead.
>
> I know I'm probably going [OT] on this. I too am an Ubuntu desktop
> user, but I can't really see the advantage of using it over Debian as
> a server? Perhaps you could tell me your reasoning behind migrating
> your servers to Debian?
Well, I did say "when they go pop". They've been runnnig Debian quite happily for some time now and I'm unlikely to change that
in the short term.
My reasoning for migrating are:-
* Consistent platform across whole environment
Which leads to
* Single cache of repository rather than one for ubuntu, one for debian
* More up to date kernel and packages
* Shorter time between releases
* Will be same as I deploy to customers, so makes supporting them easier.
