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Re:Ask HN: Debian or Ubuntu for Web Servers? by olefoo on Saturday November 29, 2008 @02:43PM (#380307)
The heuristic I use when choosing between them is: What is the server supporting?

If it's legacy PHP apps (like SquirrelMail, or SugarCRM) that need specific versions of PHP and mysql to be happy; then debian.

If it's more modern apps, or things that are currently in development Ubuntu. Ubuntu's python and postgresql support are excellent.

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Re:Ask HN: Debian or Ubuntu for Web Servers? by merrick33 on Saturday November 29, 2008 @04:22PM (#380369)
Interesting, that seems exactly what my situation is. Legacy apps are on Debian and considering moving to Ubuntu for new app using Python / Postgresql.
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