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RHEL is popular for solutions like running a datacenter mostly because it has a nice enterprise support story. It's what the E in that acronym is for, after all

RHEL is popular for solutions like running a datacenter mostly because it has a nice enterprise support story. It's what the E in that acronym is for, after all. Ubuntu, meanwhile, is quite popular among us mere mortals who have to fix our own boxen. Debian is popular for Docker images exactly because many of the people trying Docker were already familiar with Ubuntu. Those users quickly ended up wanting smaller images, making Debian an obvious thing to try out since Ubuntu is basically Debian with bells on. Ubuntu fought a sea of distros and came out as what's very nearly an industry standard, if not an official one. The 90s were a fricking mess by comparison. Slackware on floppies. (And now I need "Slackware on floppies" dubbed over the "Jesus wept" scene from Hellraiser.)

jniedrauer 7y ago
> Ubuntu fought a sea of distros and came out as what's very nearly an industry standard, if not an official one. I think you may be living in a bubble. I've been running devops for various shops for half a decade and I've only once used Ubuntu, because it was already being used by an acquisition. I won't deny that Ubuntu is popular. It's certainly got the lions share of the desktop market. But there is no such consensus in the server market.
- bananocurrency 7y ago
  https://blog.digitalocean.com/where-do-droplets-form/ https://blog.digitalocean.com/where-do-droplets-form/ I don't think this feels like a bubble.
- Sammi 7y ago
  Come on guys. You're fighting anecdote with anecdote. Here's some date I could dig up by a couple of minutes googling: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux Other sibling comments link to more.
jeffnappi 7y ago
But it was so much fun running Slackware servers and compiling our own minimal kernels make menuconfig
- cerberusss 7y ago
  Goshdarn, I totally forgot about make menuconfig! Good memories.

jniedrauer 7y ago

> Ubuntu fought a sea of distros and came out as what's very nearly an industry standard, if not an official one. I think you may be living in a bubble. I've been running devops for various shops for half a decade and I've only once used Ubuntu, because it was already being used by an acquisition. I won't deny that Ubuntu is popular. It's certainly got the lions share of the desktop market. But there is no such consensus in the server market.

bananocurrency 7y ago
https://blog.digitalocean.com/where-do-droplets-form/ https://blog.digitalocean.com/where-do-droplets-form/ I don't think this feels like a bubble.
Sammi 7y ago
Come on guys. You're fighting anecdote with anecdote. Here's some date I could dig up by a couple of minutes googling: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux Other sibling comments link to more.

jeffnappi 7y ago

But it was so much fun running Slackware servers and compiling our own minimal kernels make menuconfig

cerberusss 7y ago
Goshdarn, I totally forgot about make menuconfig! Good memories.