[Nottingham] Debian vs Ubuntu

Dean Sas dean at deansas.org
Thu Jul 20 13:29:10 BST 2006


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Paul Mellors wrote:
> How similar from a server [no gui] point of view is Debian to Ubuntu? 
> Don't they both use apt?  If i know Ubuntu server will making a
> transition to Debian be easy.  Before you ask why?  I don't actually
> want to, i'm reasearching the best distro to run on a server for my
> hosting.
> 

Basically identical. The ubuntu kernel is typically newer. You may also
find that some applications are currently slightly newer in stable
ubuntu vs stable debian. The "slightly" depends on how long since debian
released, currently they're basically equivalent.

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