Why? Ubuntu is based on Debian and I guessing it shares and contributes to same package ecosystem.
> Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) has been around for decades
Found Debian, after being around for decades, never quite won the desktop market. Debian got there perhaps 80% ofthe way, but the final 20% was just hard to achieve, and I think Ubuntu put a great effort into that 20%, polishing it up and making it a much better experience. After trying Debian, CentOS, Mandriva, Gentoo for my dev machine, I ended up with Ubuntu, and with it I stopped worrying about my OS. Almost everything works. I don't even think about or notice the OS anymore. And that's a good thing!
So, back to Debian, once I want to deploy something and I've played with it on my Ubuntu dev machine, which OS would I evaluate first? Ubuntu Server, of course. So I think the server story paradoxically often starts on the Desktop.
So, back to Debian, once I want to deploy something and I've played with it on my Ubuntu dev machine, which OS would I evaluate first? Ubuntu Server, of course.
Maybe, but Ubuntu Server has serious downsides when it comes to security updates. Canonical only releases security updates for main/restricted, while Debian releases security updates for the whole distribution. So, if you are using packages from universe/multiverse (which I guess a lot of people do), security updates are not guaranteed. Or as Canonical puts it:
Canonical does not provide a guarantee of regular security updates for software in the universe component, but will provide these where they are made available by the community.
Why? Ubuntu is based on Debian and I guessing it shares and contributes to same package ecosystem.
> Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) has been around for decades
Found Debian, after being around for decades, never quite won the desktop market. Debian got there perhaps 80% ofthe way, but the final 20% was just hard to achieve, and I think Ubuntu put a great effort into that 20%, polishing it up and making it a much better experience. After trying Debian, CentOS, Mandriva, Gentoo for my dev machine, I ended up with Ubuntu, and with it I stopped worrying about my OS. Almost everything works. I don't even think about or notice the OS anymore. And that's a good thing!
So, back to Debian, once I want to deploy something and I've played with it on my Ubuntu dev machine, which OS would I evaluate first? Ubuntu Server, of course. So I think the server story paradoxically often starts on the Desktop.