Hey Mikel, I'm running a mix of Debian and Ubuntu at the moment.
Ubuntu Server acts as a KVM host for a number of Debian guests (and it just works - very little hassle out of the box). Both have stable IPv6 support (including 6over4 and 6in4) which is nice (not that we've got anywhere near the levels of ISP support yet in Australia to warrant wide spread deployment of it). I've found Debian to be slightly more locked down by default, which is handy when you're deploying VMs. Ubuntu Server has, at times, seemed to be a bit of an afterthought, so I can see where you might get that vibe from - it does receive regular updates though and is very pleasant to work with. The documentation is also reasonably up-to-date on a myriad of different packages and server setups. -Matt On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mikel, > > I've been using Ubuntu Server in production for the last four years or > so, although I am sure Debian would be an almost identical experience > for a server installation. I've familiar with administering it and > every time I've had to use an RPM-based distro it just seems rough > round the edges. The deb-based tools feel cleaner IMHO. I also hate > yum. > > It's quite rare that I've had to build 3rd party stuff myself on > Ubuntu - the last thing that comes to mind is NodeJS because it's so > new and volatile all of the packages were out of date the moment they > came out. > > However, Canonical has this awesome concept of 'Personal Package > Archives', which makes it easy for anyone to build a package and have > Canonical host it for you - so for cutting edge stuff, there's almost > always a PPA with what you need. > > At the last place I worked at, we were making deb packages of our own > code. It's seems like overhead at fisrt, but it can pay off for ease > of deployment and versioning for moderate-to-complex systems. > > So basically, I *love* Ubuntu. I can sometimes even be found running > Ubuntu Server on my MacBook Pro - I keep Postgres & MySQL in there > because it's a thousand times easier installing stuff in there than > with Homebrew & MacPorts. > > James. > > On 27 November 2010 18:43, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi RoRoers, >> >> Quick survey, what is your current deployment OS of choice and why? >> >> Reason I ask is there is a lot of movement recently, my current deployment >> OS of choice is CentOS, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth and >> sometimes has interesting yum problems on updating software, I can get >> anything I want installed of course using direct installs, but would like to >> get a bit of feedback from our community on what you are using these days. >> >> For some reason, I look at Ubuntu as just a desktop OS, I know this is >> irrational, but I have been seeing more and more ubuntu installs on screen >> casts and the like, are people using this because they find it easier? Are >> they (gasp) running the GUI on it in production? What is the attraction >> here? >> >> >> Mikel Lindsaar >> http://rubyx.com/ >> http://lindsaar.net/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> >> > > > > -- > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
