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0 pointswillis9364y ago0 comments

And yet there is utility in using ubuntu because it's a shared platform that many tools are developed on. It is mostly debian, but it is not exactly debian. Since ubuntu LTS latest is the de facto linux default its shortcomings fall away for swiss-army development.

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eatonphil4y ago

De facto Linux for who? I've sold on prem apps to enterprises and startups for a while and the majority weren't Ubuntu. It was a mix of Amazon Linux, CentOS, RHEL and Ubuntu or Debian.

In containers I most often see Ubuntu-minimal or Alpine.

And while Ubuntu is represented in both those groups its not clearly de facto anything.

The only place I'd personally argue you really need to run Ubuntu (unless you really want to spend time hacking desktop configuration) is on a laptop.

But even then there are a large group of people who do run things other than Ubuntu like PopOS or Mint or Fedora or whatever other new distro there is.

doubled1124y ago

Every time I see Ubuntu listed as the "de facto standard" or similar, I realize that I've never seen an Ubuntu server in production.

They're definitely a popular solution, and I'm not sure if I should be surprised I've never seen one, or if maybe it's region / industry specific.

RHEL? Yes. Lots of CentOS, most now looking at Rocky and Alma. A few Gentoo and Arch boxes at smaller businesses. Been logged into the odd BSD, AIX and HP-UX machine before.

Ubuntu? No... Never seem to stumble upon SUSE either, for what it's worth.

eatonphil4y ago

From what I gather, SUSE is more common in Europe. It's the standard distro to be deployed along with SAP which is used there more than Salesforce.

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deadbunny4y ago

RHEL/CentOS seems to be prevalent in the US and Ubuntu seems prevalent in Europe in my experience.

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eatonphil4y ago

De facto Linux for who? I've sold on prem apps to enterprises and startups for a while and the majority weren't Ubuntu. It was a mix of Amazon Linux, CentOS, RHEL and Ubuntu or Debian.

In containers I most often see Ubuntu-minimal or Alpine.

And while Ubuntu is represented in both those groups its not clearly de facto anything.

The only place I'd personally argue you really need to run Ubuntu (unless you really want to spend time hacking desktop configuration) is on a laptop.

But even then there are a large group of people who do run things other than Ubuntu like PopOS or Mint or Fedora or whatever other new distro there is.

doubled1124y ago

Every time I see Ubuntu listed as the "de facto standard" or similar, I realize that I've never seen an Ubuntu server in production.

They're definitely a popular solution, and I'm not sure if I should be surprised I've never seen one, or if maybe it's region / industry specific.

RHEL? Yes. Lots of CentOS, most now looking at Rocky and Alma. A few Gentoo and Arch boxes at smaller businesses. Been logged into the odd BSD, AIX and HP-UX machine before.

Ubuntu? No... Never seem to stumble upon SUSE either, for what it's worth.

eatonphil4y ago

From what I gather, SUSE is more common in Europe. It's the standard distro to be deployed along with SAP which is used there more than Salesforce.

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deadbunny4y ago

RHEL/CentOS seems to be prevalent in the US and Ubuntu seems prevalent in Europe in my experience.

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