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- pintocat, on 02/05/2009, -5/+52Survey by Ubuntu says Ubuntu is awesome.
- DangerCollie, on 02/05/2009, -3/+32We use Ubuntu on our developer machines. Our primary servers are CentOS but I wouldn't hesitate to put mission critical services on Ubuntu. We run some secondary services on the developer machines. Handles the extra load without a hitch.
- rickvug, on 02/05/2009, -4/+27I don't consider myself an Ubuntu fanboy but this only makes sense. My experience has been that most Linux distros are rock-solid and can be used as a server OS. My preference of Ubunutu comes down to the following:
1) Aptitude takes makes installing packages and managing dependencies simple.
2) I get up to date packages. RedHat 5 still doesn't use PHP 5.2 - no thanks!
3) I can choose between a long life cycle and stability with LTS releases or I can update every 6 months.
4) No need to use CentOS for most installs and then RedHat when support is really needed. Standardize on Ubuntu and purchase support where you need it.
5) I'm able to use Ubunutu on the desktop as well. I like the consistency and ability to focus on mastering a single system.
6) I like the company, vision and community. There are tons of resources and tutorials available. - litolist, on 02/05/2009, -0/+19128MB you mean?
- inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+17Yeah, because everyone will be running Ubuntu Server on their netbooks...
FTA:
"The majority of nearly 7,000 businesses surveyed that are using Ubuntu Linux said they use it for a range of mission-critical workloads that are typically run on servers, such as proxy/caching, routing, mail security, clustering, virtualization, data backup and databases." - jggube, on 02/04/2009, -7/+23I'm betting the popularization of netbooks helped a tad bit.
- earthforce1, on 02/05/2009, -2/+15I am running 8.04 server edition (no GUI) on my Sun Ultra 5 downstairs. I started with stock Debian and the GUI, but with only 128K of RAM (Got the machine for free, and it is impossible to find more memory for) the non-GUI version does everything I need and saves the precious RAM for server functionality. I plan on keeping it until it falls apart, or I retire one of the family's desktops.
- iduridur07, on 02/05/2009, -3/+15Ubuntu beats Centos in ease of server type software installation. Try installing 20 specific perl modules in Centos, uggggh.
I just wish Ubuntu would come up with a better services configuration gui to stop and start services. Then i would switch my servers over.
- strangeman, on 02/06/2009, -0/+10Funny.. my granny is using Ubuntu and she's 80. She likes that everything just works. Her first computer - which she got when she was 70 - had only Windows on it and it never really worked for her. With Ubuntu every task is easy.. she doesn't have to go to the internet to find games.. she just goes to add/remove programs.. Oh.. and she has never heard of such a thing as a cmd line.
- 8KDiamond, on 02/05/2009, -2/+12At UMASS we had a computer lab full of Ubuntu computers. Ubuntu purely from a usability standpoint is the strongest build for a mainstream audience.
- grey580, on 02/05/2009, -3/+12I've used redhat and cent os. ubuntu is just as good as the rest of them.
- SuperOmegaSlack, on 02/05/2009, -6/+14Ubuntu is great and all, but nothing beats FreeBSD on servers in my opinion.
- katrayun, on 02/06/2009, -1/+9Okay, I'll bite. What is so impossible to do without the terminal - that a casual computer user would need to be doing?
- earthforce1, on 02/06/2009, -0/+7Correction - 128M.
- thaprinze, on 02/05/2009, -1/+82009, actually. Would you like to join us?
- 4321234, on 02/05/2009, -4/+11Sorry to disagree, but I think that Windows is not for the desktop anymore.
- ethana2, on 02/06/2009, -0/+6This house is entirely Ubuntu / OS X.
..mostly Ubuntu.
Windows hasn't been 'ready' for the desktop it has been dominating for a while now. - tonyyarusso, on 02/05/2009, -1/+7The Debian ancestry with regard to package management and updating is a godsend for sure. Community support is great and courteous (thanks to the Code of Conduct and overall ethos). Everything is fairly straightforward, consistent, and easy to automate and replicate as needed. Every new server we installed at my previous job was set up with Ubuntu (older stuff was a mix of Fedora and Solaris), the university in town not only uses Ubuntu extensively internally but even hosts one of the major public mirrors, and my current employer uses Ubuntu on the server as well.
- mason092, on 02/06/2009, -0/+5Buried for "I learned her how." Yes, I am a grammar nazi.
- jammrk, on 02/05/2009, -2/+7When ubuntu first came out, I felt much the same. I remember thinking it was too easy to set-up and use! (yes, in my mind this was a deterrent). Which says a lot more about my mindset than it does about ubuntu. I have used a lot of distro's and the reason why I settled on ubuntu was the way it handled packages and also the sheer amount of packages available. In this area ubuntu is way ahead of the curve.
- darkmagician777, on 02/05/2009, -2/+6The cost saving of using a Linux Server Edition can save lots of money compared to Microsoft Windows Home Server.
Just take an old(er) system and install - that's it - set up what you need. No extra Microsoft cost, NO yearly virus protection update, no added needed defrag and system clean up tools that one needs to keep windows running fast. Easily can save a person 400 in a year and adds more with more years. And when your on a tight budget and cant spend this makes lots of cents :-) - macewan, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3I'm running Ubuntu Ibex fullscreen on Apple Macbook Air through VMWare and the browser is more responsive than Safari on OSX.
- eatporktoo, on 02/05/2009, -0/+3Duh, it's also for phones ;-)
- whoreable, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3dugg for clustering.
- mahadiga, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3I recommend decentralization of Ubuntu free CDs distribution to every nation in the world.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ - Azathothh, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3and they say Microsoft does nasty things...
- Azathothh, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3"a new survey conducted by Canonical "
uhhhh .....
.. - secrity, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2I use NFS extensively in a mixed environment at work, and it works very well. I administer servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse, HP-UX, and Solaris -- and NFS works great on both the Linux and UNIX platforms.
- uRmyHartBstopR, on 02/06/2009, -2/+4Err... from my experiences CentOS and Debian is a lot more stable that Ubuntu. Ubuntu would crash once in a full moon. Some of the updates would kill stuff like my sounds. I would rather go Debian.
- inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2I think we need more of an impartial survey.
- arbulus, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2I apologize, I was actually meaning mixed as in Linux, Windows and Mac.
- Macuyiko, on 02/05/2009, -0/+2Yes! I agree, some server-specific tools (GUI or command line) would be a great addition.
- arbulus, on 02/05/2009, -0/+2More GUI system configuration would be a welcomed addition.
- arbulus, on 02/05/2009, -3/+4I would have no problem running as many web servers as I wanted on Ubuntu. It's easy to mange, installing LAMP is a breeze, and it's solid. If I were looking to set up a LAMP server, I wouldn't look at anything else BUT Ubuntu. Plus Apt is so much better than any other package manager out there.
But for other things, such as a file server, no. Samba on Ubuntu is horrible, it's horrific to manage, and file access controls are *****. File access controls in Linux period are *****. As a file server, one needs very fine grained access control and easy to use tools to manage the shares, which no Linux distro has. NFS is great if all of your workstations are running Linux, but in a mixed environment, NFS is useless. - vtlaser, on 02/05/2009, -5/+6Running Ubuntu 8.10 on my eeePC 1000H. No problems really, except for lack of functionality in the four profile buttons above the keyboard, which I believe I can enable somehow.
- ickyelf, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1Ubuntu server is great. You can have a LAMP stack up and running in less than 30 minutes.
- classhelper, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1I use Ubuntu Server as the host OS for VMware Server, which has worked great for quite a while now. I run a few different distros in VMs, mostly Debian, but increasingly Ubuntu.
- XeroXenith, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1Firefox, you mean?
- inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1Canonical makes Ubuntu..
- Vadi0, on 02/06/2009, -1/+2It's not Linuxworld, it's by Canonical Inc. on the net. Windows wasn't in the picture, btw.
- zeabu, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1instead of digging me down, could anyone say WHY it wouldn't be like this?
I was not saying there should be less options, less freedom. What I was saying is that I think there should be more cooperation between different distros, under the same flag.
Instead of 40 distros, wouldn't be 5 (with 10 sub-distros each) be better? - DynamicBits, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1My experience with Samba on Ubuntu has been far more positive than yours. Heck, my experience with Samba in general was also more positive.
I can't comment specifically on the tools to manage the shares as I just did the configuration by hand.
As far as fine grained access control, what was it that you couldn't do? In my installation, I created individual accounts for each user that connected to the samba server. Their personal shares were chown'd to that user. When more than one person needed access to a particular folder, I added them to the same group and chown'd that directory to the group. As I recall, I also set the setuid (or setgid) bit for the shared directories. - heatrj, on 02/07/2009, -0/+0We use Ubuntu at our data center for everything except oracle machines. OEL for those. Ubuntu server is a great base install. It installs almost nothing. Great for building a system from the ground up to serve a specific purpose.
- heatrj, on 02/07/2009, -0/+0This sounds like a desktop thing. And I've yet to see Ubuntu crash.
- inactive, on 02/05/2009, -8/+8Wow everyone...
Digging someone down because of their opinion? Seriously, go outside and play. - ethana2, on 02/06/2009, -3/+1Who cares what they do? Just fricking stop telling people about 'linux' and use the word 'Ubuntu' for desktop users instead. It's not that hard.
- Yage2006, on 02/06/2009, -6/+2MMM ya a survey conducted by linuxworld I am sure it will not be bias at all.
Not that I hate on the linux but seriously. - zeabu, on 02/06/2009, -6/+1For Linux to become a treat to Windows and Macos, it has to have much much less distros, in that light I think it would be good that other developers join their forces with such an easy distro as Ubuntu.
- thaprinze, on 02/05/2009, -10/+5As a noob, I LOVE Ubuntu, but stupid M$ ruined it for me, because I have a Zune, and it's too much work to setup an XP VM with USB support... Why didn't I go for a Sansa??!!!
- GoldEdition, on 02/05/2009, -13/+4What a surprise...
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