Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web applications?

Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by davidw on Sunday October 19, 2008 @05:50AM (#337000)

Its derivative, Ubuntu, is pretty good too. I use it, and really enjoy the fact that I run the same thing on my server and on my laptop. Wikipedia is switching to Ubuntu, apparently.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by jwilliams on Sunday October 19, 2008 @09:36AM (#337067)

I'd recommend Ubuntu too - especially if most of your work is "vanilla" - e.g. Apache, MySQL, etc. The assistance around this is both high quality and accessible (not that it's not with Debian... I just find it better for Ubuntu).

Once you get running you might consider a switch to Debian, but I've never reached that point.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by charlesju on Sunday October 19, 2008 @11:48AM (#337120)

I use Ubuntu too. Great repositories, very stable, all the normal unix tools, good stuff.

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