[nzlug] ubuntu versus debian?

[Jim Cheetham]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:03:29PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote:
> Where Ubuntu comes unglued is in having the latest of everything. Debian
> people are where the bleeding edge stuff is, btu the question is how
> much do you want to bleed?

Really? You must have a different experience to me :-)

Ubuntu's stable version is much more up to date than Debian's.

Debian's testing/experimental versions are much more stable than
Ubuntu's. Much less blood :-)

If you want a server to be stable (and you do, generally) you can pick
either Debian or Ubuntu. Then you get the security patches you want,
without the API/version changes you don't.

Picking *anything else* will give you grief in the longer term - you may
choose to trade stability for features, but that's your call :-)

-jim