http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=991875&cid=25329349 Brion wrote:
We liked it better It's nice that people can run the same version locally (who runs CentOS on their desktop? Playing CentOS vs RHEL just feels like a big > fat kludge and tells you there's something broken about the distro.) Unlike Debian stable, and like Fedora, it's updated fairly frequently so we get a decent rate of package updates for infrastructure... ...unlike Fedora, it's not so bleeding edge that things die all the time (SELinux breaking everything, yay!) ...and Canonical actually puts out security updates for a decent amount of time.
Maybe I am a sad person, but every time I upgrade from version N to version N+2 on ubuntu, the 50% of the stuff broke (mostly X related stuff). Seems debian upgrades are painless.
But he!.. I am not sysadmin. I even use XP on home to play games :-P. Also, seems upgrading ubuntu from version N to N+1 seems more stable.
I know a girl that work on a computer from the GRID, and also use some distro optimized for desktop useage. To me is crazy. But maybe more is to be made with a system you know and love, to with some "better" distro that you don't love and know much less. Also, seems all feedback about debian-ish stuff is ubuntu related. Sysadmins seems much dependants of Google searches (?). And google search has become some sort of "Ubuntu manual", while information about debian stuff is often below a pile of random crap (the "for humans" motto seems to work here, googling for information in google using "Debian" + "error message" always show crazy useless craps from logs and robots, never forums with sane or usable information.