Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS

Kurtz'sKompund writes "Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell to make Ubuntu available pre-installed on servers. 'Canonical, despite obviously supporting such a deal, had little to do with Dell's decision. Dell said it was merited by customer demand. Likewise, the decision of whether Ubuntu Server will ship pre-installed will be determined the same way.'"

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Makes sense

[El Lobo]

Offering a Linuz distro (even Ubuntu) as a server makes more sense than offerig it as a desktop, IMO. I purchased 2 Dell servers running Linuzzz (years ago, when they offered Redhat) and they were a great deal, still running together with our 2 Dells running Windows 2003 server. No problems at all.

This situation has already kind of happened .

[Stu101]

We finally bought a custom php/mysql app (Bespoke @ $6K, cheapest package with support we ever bought)

I asked what distro they wanted, suggesting Ubuntu 6.06 server LTS (I use it on desktop therefore more comfortable with it, as I used to be windows only)

I had to get a basic server with ssh ready.

I was told (in a round about way) DONT... EVER..., use Centos, or Debian stable. Just dont whatever you do use Ubuntu on a public facing IP. These people arent amatuers either, they develop PHP/MySQL/Linux solutions for a living. Left me wondering about the viability of it as a server.