I totally agree, Debian is my personal favorite as well. But to be objective, Ubuntu has the advantage of having some training material and courses from Canonical, and does not require being tied to another company, so you can get the training, and save the updates subscription fees.
----------------------* Mosab Ahmad * Entrepreneur in the make Cell : +201119942443 E-mail : [email protected] LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/mosab github : https://github.com/mos3abof On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ahmed Mekkawy < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > When I talked about standerdizing a distro to suggest for the engineering > syndicate issue, some guys suggested others. So I thought about opening > this thread to say why did I choose it and discuss the alternatives. I'm > sending this from my mobile so please execuse my previty. > > * Server distro: > I guess the real alternatives we got is redhat, centos, ubuntu and debian. > Let me summerize shortly my openion on each of them: > - redhat: technically competing. The good thing is clear training pathes. > But on the other hand I don't believe we need to be tied to another > american company. Paying monthly subscriptions for all the government > servers as long as paying for training all the staff is not a pleasant idea > for me. Remember that the syndicate project title is technological > independance. > - centos: I don't believe that centos is good enough for governmental > servers. Enough that the security updates are too slow which could cause > disasters. > - debian: this is my personal choice, technically competing, excellent > security updates, very stable. And best of all, it is an independant, very > large, and very distributed contributers group which ensures we don't be > dependant on a certain company or even country. > - ubuntu: from my POV, ubuntu server doesn't give any real value more than > debian. Except being dependant on a company instead of contributer group. > This can be better in some aspects like having official support. But I > believe we don't really need that. > > Will send another email for desktop distros > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
