Small debian based server distribution

[Amos Shapira]

On 28 October 2010 07:31, geoffrey mendelson
<geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Steve G. wrote:
>
>> And why or how is Ubuntu server different from any other linux server to
>> make it that way?

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> Because UBUNTU is not intended for people who want to customize their system
> beyond adding or subtracting whole packages. If you want a feature not
> compiled in, you can do it, but are no longer able to use their packages
> which means not using their update and dependency system.

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That's my general impression from Ubuntu - I switched to it for my
desktops for convenience, and use CentOS for the servers at work. I
never saw them actually back-porting important patches, for instance,
not even to the alleged Long Term Support (LTS) versions (but maybe I
missed).

But that said - there were a few eyebrows raised in my workplace when
we talked to a Aster Data (http://www.asterdata.com/) and they said
that their appliance is based on Ubuntu server. From talking to them
they said that they chose it because the Ubuntu kernel contains a new
feature not available in RHEL/CentOS (simply because they haven't
caught up with the latest kernel yet).

We are still evaluating them and I'm looking at options to run their
database on top of CentOS (this extra feature is not completely
essential).

--Amos