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[Gary Mort]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Easier to find stuff that works on RH/CentOS than Ubuntu. 95% of US Linux
> deployments, give or take, are Red Hat.
>
> Ubuntu has a place, just not in the data center. Yet, anyway. They seem to
> be working on that.
>
>
I find it depends on what it is your running and how willing you are to
compile programs from scratch.

I've consistently found the CentOS PHP package to be badly out of date,
which initially led me to using Ubuntu.   However, just one package is not
a good reason to switch, as it is not that hard to compile it from scratch.

However, in the past when dealing with image processing and website
processing, I found so many packages downlevel that I ended up sticking
with Ubuntu.
Imagemagick was a big one where Ubuntu was preferable...especially if you
want to do liquid rescaling[though perhaps CentOS has caught up?]

wkhtmltopdf was a major pain in that even when I compiled it from source,
it had a lot of dependencies on various software package versions which led
me down a rabbit hole of compiling packages.

Postfix is another package where Ubuntu simply has the edge if you want to
play with the some of the more recent features.

At the same time though, the security benefits of CentOS are large - so it
can be better to deploy a mixed environment - use Ubuntu for development
and as specific process services[ie ship all your image processing off to a
Ubuntu box only reachable from the web servers] and use CentOS for
deployment.  When you run into version dependencies going from dev to
production, you can make a case by case decision on whether to compile
everything you need or use web services and export that function to a
Ubuntu box.

As an independent developer, I use Ubuntu as my preference as it saves me
time when dealing with later features.
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