Is Debian better than Ubuntu?

superman2727 · May 14, 2018

I wanted to compare Debian and Ubuntu when it comes to server and as a desktop OS. Which is more recommendable to use when you are a beginner? Does this two offers free software but gives a stable performance even if it is free? What can you say about this two? I know there are a lot of differences about this two and I want to outburst the capacity of this two.

24x7serverman · May 14, 2018

This would be a controversial topic as both OS have their own pros and cons, here you can find the in-depth comparison between Debian and Ubuntu.

Blizbox · May 14, 2018

There are lots of pros and cons to both. For beginners Ubuntu is better to get started with.
Linux distros are free, and have very stable releases.

I suggest you pick one and test it out so you can learn for yourself

VirtuBox · May 14, 2018

superman2727 said:
I wanted to compare Debian and Ubuntu when it comes to server and as a desktop OS. Which is more recommendable to use when you are a beginner? Does this two offers free software but gives a stable performance even if it is free? What can you say about this two? I know there are a lot of differences about this two and I want to outburst the capacity of this two.

Ubuntu is based on Debian, so there are not a lot of difference between them, excepted for the packages repositories available.
For server usage, the main difference between Ubuntu and Debian, is the LTS (long term service) versions available with Ubuntu (14.04,16.04,18.04) when there is no official LTS with Debian. So when you are going to setup a server, you will probably prefer to use an Operating system with security updates available during at least 2 or 3 years.

BenZ-AMS · May 14, 2018

Ubuntu is based on Debian,

I tend to think of Debian as being the bleeding edge of the Debian based distros. Ubuntu takes that and rounds it into a more user friendly product for end-users. I don't typically think of Ubuntu as a server OS, but I suppose it can be.

Compare this to the RedHat side of things, Fedora is kind of the test bed, bleeding edge distro. Then that gets rounded into form by RedHat Enterprise and CentOS. I haven't checked Fedora is several years, but I was thinking at one time it's life cycle was only about 6 months, so it was never a solution for a server OS. But it allowed Redhat to test out features and changes and get end-user feedback before pushing those changes out to RHEL.

In the Debian world, the Debian distro is more like the Fedora distro and Ubuntu is more like the RHEL distro. It's a loose comparison, but it generally works.

well-web · May 15, 2018

For server CentOS better&stability, never Debian/Ubuntu.

Is Debian better than Ubuntu?

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