On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 05/03/2010 5:03 PM:<div class="im"><br>
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, unsolicited <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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>From the original post, it would be more interesting to compare CentOS vs.<br>
Kubuntu (Debian), 1/2 night each, in each of these areas.<br>
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To put it poorly, in essence, popular desktop maintenance vs. popular<br>
server maintenance.<br>
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Why the false dichotomy?<br>
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It's not false.<br>
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The sense I have from the list is that in business / servers, CentOS or RHEL is more prevalent, while on desktops it is Ubuntu.<br>
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Thus, having an understanding of both seems appropriate.</blockquote></div><br clear="all">Yes, that is a common perception, and it has historical reasons. <br><br>First, RedHat had commercial support and support for certain hardware<br>
that does not have the same support in Debian (and therefore Ubuntu).<br>This makes certain server stuff (e.g. RAID controllers).<br><br>Second, there was the "Debian is hard" which was true until a few years<br>
ago.<br><br>Third, RedHat supported proprietary service based thingies that were <br>common on web hosts (e.g. cPanel, WHM, ...etc.), and support for Debian<br>was lagging for these.<br><br>However, lately things have swung in favor of Debian, with Ubuntu Server<br>
Edition gaining traction everywhere. One of the reasons is that it is Debian<br>with all the APT goodness there is. Another is that it has a vast central <br>repository with everything in it. And yet another is the familiarity with the<br>
desktop provides easy switching rather than a different one for each.<br><br>And with virtualization, support for hardware is not that much of an issue<br>if you are managing VPSs.<br><br>So hopefully more people will see the light and switch to Debian/Ubuntu<br>
on the server.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>
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