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0 pointsrdtsc9y ago0 comments

> That hurts to read.

Why? Ubuntu is based on Debian and I guessing it shares and contributes to same package ecosystem.

> Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) has been around for decades

Found Debian, after being around for decades, never quite won the desktop market. Debian got there perhaps 80% ofthe way, but the final 20% was just hard to achieve, and I think Ubuntu put a great effort into that 20%, polishing it up and making it a much better experience. After trying Debian, CentOS, Mandriva, Gentoo for my dev machine, I ended up with Ubuntu, and with it I stopped worrying about my OS. Almost everything works. I don't even think about or notice the OS anymore. And that's a good thing!

So, back to Debian, once I want to deploy something and I've played with it on my Ubuntu dev machine, which OS would I evaluate first? Ubuntu Server, of course. So I think the server story paradoxically often starts on the Desktop.

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microtonal9y ago· 1 in thread

So, back to Debian, once I want to deploy something and I've played with it on my Ubuntu dev machine, which OS would I evaluate first? Ubuntu Server, of course.

Maybe, but Ubuntu Server has serious downsides when it comes to security updates. Canonical only releases security updates for main/restricted, while Debian releases security updates for the whole distribution. So, if you are using packages from universe/multiverse (which I guess a lot of people do), security updates are not guaranteed. Or as Canonical puts it:

Canonical does not provide a guarantee of regular security updates for software in the universe component, but will provide these where they are made available by the community.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories

rdtscOP9y ago

Fair point, thanks for mentioning it.

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