Yup, I always run Ubuntu Server too. I run my blog, book review app and IRC bot on it. I've had no issues with it whatsoever, and everyone I've worked with knows how to use it. Unbeatable?
On 27/11/2010, at 20:22, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote: > Another vote for Ubuntu server. I've been running it exclusively in > production for about 2 years now (most of my current stuff is on 10.04; the > latest one I just spun up yesterday is 10.10) and it's fantastic. My > deployment-related babushka deps are focused around Ubuntu too. > > Ben > > On 27 November 2010 20:12, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > Been deploying onto various flavours of Ubuntu server in production for > several years now (4-5, I think?). > > Weapon of choice (including on Amazon EC2 instances where it's well > supported) when not using heroku these days. > > Mostly my reasons are because it is been by far the least trouble free distro > I've used (YMMV) and had probs over the years with RH, Fed or RHEL (CentOS is > based on rhel afaik). > > Regular updates and upgrades are painless and there is a LTS version to pin > things to and plenty of "I did this" type tutorials if I need to do something > highly unusual with it. > > It does have some annoyances (ie. meerkat for example having dated ruby and > rubygems for example, or java not in the base repositories - eg. if you want > to spin up hudson) but I just use rvm to get round those sorts of things and > you can always find a web page to show you how to do what you need to. > > As a solid, no trouble server OS though, I find it pretty peerless. > > ciao ! > Daryl. > > > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:43 PM, 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
