Common problems with Ubuntu

[Amos Shapira]

2010/5/11 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>
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> Actually I once have had an Ubuntu at home and it did not give me any trouble. I'm looking for a distribution for my workplace to 4 developers seats with minimal maintainance needs. After we'll install a distribution we're unlikely to change it, so I prefer to ask around for some general impressions.

I got you. It's a legitimate questions.

I'd second Geof's report after using Ubunut for the last 4 years or
so. I've been using Debian for ten years before I switched and still
have some seconds thoughts some times, or just for a second even think
about using Fedora. Any other word I have to say will just repeat what
Geof wrote.

I switched because I just wanted a desktop distro which will let me
get on with my work (administrating the company's CentOS servers and
doing tons of e-mails and documentation work), and generally I get it
from Ubuntu.

As for "platform for developers" - I think you should consider the
target platform of their developed software - would they need access
to a specific distro/platform/compiler-version/interpreter-version/...
or are they completely agnostic? How would they use it? (in the office
connected to back-end servers, stand-alone)? What specific tools would
they need? What hardware would they need to be supported?

Cheers,

--Amos