On 19 October 2010 22:16, Hadley Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think your experience is representational of the larger one in > this instance. > > Although I'm not necessarily recommending Ubuntu as a good distribution > for creating a router, it certainly works fine as a headless box. I > imagine that it's used pretty extensively in this configuration. >
That may be the case. In my estimation however, ubuntu simply isn't designed for this task as being one of its primary uses, and my preference is towards systems that are =). I tried ubuntu for about a year before finally throwing it out again, no OS warring, it just doesn't work with me or how I function. I only tried it (again, after having used it for about 3 months a few years ago ) because people keep telling me its not as bad as I make out it is, so I re-tried just to see for myself. Ubuntu may be convenient and practical for some, just like windows and mac are convenient and practical for others, but I do not count myself among those people. =) My personal experience in this matter suggests that if your goal is for more than a "Simple Desktop" which you don't want to ever get dirty with, and you're not likely to be doing much changing of things, perhaps it is the right thing for you. However, in my estimation if you're trying to achieve something like a router or a database server, can I please humbly suggest you use something else ;). Debian is somehow much better at some of these tasks, despite the seemingly minimal differences in OS implementations. Personally, the best part of Debian vs Ubuntu is it doesn't use 'upstart', have fought and lost several battles with that, the last of which left the machine unbootable for reasons I can't debug, which is confusing to me, as I didn't remove anything Ubuntu considered essential :/ , and that last battle broke the last straw that made me ditch it. Its not like I intended for it to be rebooted, its supposed to be hands free, but when you have a Magnitude 7 earthquake and your power goes out for a week, well, you don't get much choice =P . Context: Experience now involves beloved deadrat, mandrake ( back when it as called that ), debian, ubuntu, gentoo, freebsd and openbsd. ( Using gentoo or debian for desktop/workspace setups depending on the timeframe I've got and the nature of the work ) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
