[Tfug] Differences between Ubuntu and Debian

[Jeffry Johnston]

A coworker of mine swears by FreeBSD for servers.  Why is it better?
You'd have to ask him..  hehe

Jeff


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:20:11PM -0700, Matt Jacob wrote:
>  > Claude Rubinson wrote:
>  > > The way that you phrase the question is really too vague to be
>  > > answered.  Differences in what regard?  For what use?  You need to
>  > > specify what you care about and/or what you're trying to do.  That is,
>  > > what you care about are differences that are relevant to your
>  > > particular situation.  (E.g., if you're going to be running everything
>  > > on x86, it's irrelevant that Debian supports more architectures.)
>  >
>  > Differences specifically in a server environment. And even then,
>  > specifically in a web/mail/database server environment. I'm having a
>  > discussion with a friend who's a die-hard Ubuntu kool-aid drinker, and I
>  > need to "prove" that Debian is a better choice for servers. It's a hill
>  > I'm willing to die on, but I don't know how long I want the battle to
>  > last before I give in and run into the bayonets myself. :-P
>  >
>  > Like I said, there are lots of intangible reasons why I prefer Debian,
>  > but they're more qualitative than quantitative. Since my friend and I
>  > are talking about Debian 4.0 vs. Ubuntu 8.04, would it be relevant to
>  > point out that most Ubuntu releases are pretty buggy for the first 3
>  > months following a release? How can I show that Debian is more stable,
>  > and thus, a better choice?
>
>  So you're talking about debating religion.  And that's something that
>  I stay far away from.
>
>  If, by chance, you both are *truly* interested in comparing distros
>  and not simply trying to convert one another, you need to agree upon a
>  set of measures that reflect what you're both interested in.  Then
>  compare the distros on those measures.  My suspicion is that, if you
>  tried to do that, you'd find that (a) the two of you value different
>  things (and, therefore, the distros are not commensurable), (b) you're
>  both so locked into your positions that you refuse to consider the
>  other person's perspective, or (c) you're not so far apart from each
>  other, after all.
>
>  Claude
>
>
>
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