On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Joe <j...@tmsusa.com> wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> I've been a >> Debian (non-GUI) user for almost 10 years. I've never touched Ubuntu, >> or any other distro. Debian has always come through for my server >> needs, so I've never considered anything else. Convince me why I should >> switch my Postfix server environment from Debian to Ubuntu. I'm curious >> to see how compelling your argument is. >> > > If you're happy with debian then there's no point - but let's turn the > question around: Convince me why I should switch from ubuntu to debian. > Let's see what arguments you have. > > Joe
How about you both realize that neither of you has enough information to make an objective decision, and that any kind of "arguments" you can come up with has more to do with what you're familiar with than anything else, and continuing the discussion along these lines only amounts to a holy war and nothing else. As for the original question, it all comes down to what you are comfortable with. The 2 main runners here are CentOS and Ubuntu. I've heard good things about Ubuntu but haven't tried it much. I use CentOS for all of my servers, and the main reason is that it's based on Redhat, and Redhat is the main Linux distro that all the big companies support. I'm not saying that they don't also support other distros, just that Redhat is usually first on the list. The yum package manager works quite well, and the days are long gone when there were dependency issues with rpms. I have very strong feelings against installing things from source, unless they are first built into a package. You want to be spending your time running the server and doing other things, not patting yourself on the back because you compiled all of your own packages.
