It's funny how choice of distro can be so revealing. For example, when I see RedHat, it's pretty obvious that the software is from or the person works for a Big Enterprise, with Big Serious Enterprisey Stuff, and doesn't really care about open source, let alone free software (as an aside, that's kinda sad: RedHat was the first distro I used, and I loved it for years longer than I should have).
Or when I see Debian, I know that the system or person actually is serious, is likely to have a good operations and sysadmin mindset and will probably Just Work™.
Or when I see Gentoo, I see a kindred, albeit younger, soul.
When I see 'FROM ubuntu' in a Dockerfile, my heart sinks: it's likely written in JavaScript or Ruby; it likely Greenspuns heavily. For just about any server load, vanilla Debian is going to be a superior choice: better-engineered, smaller and lighter-weight. As far as I can see, there is almost never a good reason to use Ubuntu; it's just that in the eyes of so many folks it is Linux.
Oh well, at least it's not OS X.
Or when I see Debian, I know that the system or person actually is serious, is likely to have a good operations and sysadmin mindset and will probably Just Work™.
Or when I see Gentoo, I see a kindred, albeit younger, soul.
When I see 'FROM ubuntu' in a Dockerfile, my heart sinks: it's likely written in JavaScript or Ruby; it likely Greenspuns heavily. For just about any server load, vanilla Debian is going to be a superior choice: better-engineered, smaller and lighter-weight. As far as I can see, there is almost never a good reason to use Ubuntu; it's just that in the eyes of so many folks it is Linux.
Oh well, at least it's not OS X.