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Author: Keith Smith
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
On 2014-12-24 09:48, Stephen Partington wrote:
> i like the Ubuntu release cycle a great deal. they have a long term
> support release, and then incremental releases on a stability and then
> feature swing each year. this to me is a great model. 
>
> The parts i did not like about red hat, even as a server, i spent more
> time compiling applications than anything else and fiddling them all
> into place. while educational its REALLY nice to have repositories
> that do this for you. and yes there are a number of bundled
> repositories you can bolt on to redhat/centos, but they never quire
> gave me the breadth of access i ever needed so i was back to building
> applications i wanted to use. in the end what i wanted to do was just
> easier with debian, then ubuntu came up with a much more modern
> installer and that was where i really became comfortable. easy to use,
> and able to recognize 95% of all the hardware i have ever thrown at
> it. and to top it off some of the easiest and complete chunks of
> documentation and support. 
>


Compileing anything takes away from using something like RHEL in my
opinion.


> I guess what i am saying this is likely a similar path that allot of
> people have taken, and this is giving ubuntu its real market share.
>


I would think so.

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, James Dugger <>
> wrote:
>
>> "Would be interesting to know why the migration."
>>
>> Others may disagree but (IMHO) RH's business model; i.e. long term
>> support agreement, methods of patching and updating their repos and
>> by extension all Distros that copy or rely in their model (CentOS)
>> where not designed for "The Cloud" where VM instances are spun up or
>> and destroyed minute by minute. 
>>
>> To be sure RH and others have moved to try and better position their
>> products for this environment but this is one time when Canonical
>> got their first, with a build and lifecycle that better fits the
>> environment.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Keith Smith
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> Would be interesting to know why the migration.
>>
>> On 2014-12-23 20:32, James Dugger wrote:
>>
> http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_ubuntu_extend_the_dominance_in_the_linux_web_server_market_at_the_expense_of_red_hat_centos
>> [1]
>> [2].
>>
>> Here is the reference.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Nathan England <>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-12-23 16:43, James Dugger wrote:
>>
>> Just a note regarding Ubuntu. It is a server centric install. 
>> It is
>> replacing/outpacing RHEL CentOS and Debian on forward facing
>> sites at
>> a rate of 500 per day.
>>
>> Personally, I'm not a big fan of any of the debian versions
>> including any of the *buntu flavors. But as systemd destroys more
>> and more linux distributions, I am increasing leaning towards
>> ubuntu.
>>
>> I would like to know where you get the 500 per day number from...
>>
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> http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_ubuntu_extend_the_dominance_in_the_linux_web_server_market_at_the_expense_of_red_hat_centos
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> Stephen
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