On 27/11/2010, at 6:49 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote: > I highly doubt anyone is running X or any GUI on their production servers.
Yeah.. that's why the gasp was there :) > I assume you know that ubuntu comes in a server distro: > http://www.ubuntu.com/server. Yeah, knew about that. > I use ubuntu because apt package manager is just fantastic. Having a > fantastic community around Ubuntu (and Debian) means finding solutions to > problems is usually very quick and painless. And overall, Ubuntu has got so > much attention recently (even if predominately in the desktop arena) that > it's just really well-rounded. So many distros can feel rough around the > edges so it's nice to have a system which is sensible and works as expected. > Principle of least surprise and what not... Hmm, good point. When I have looked around the community though for various things, I have found the signal to noise ratio quite low with regards to a lot of linux newbies trying to get XYZ working. But I guess i have not had to solve any really hard things on Ubuntu recently, so perhaps this has improved. Thanks for your comments :) Mikel -- 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.
