I was looking around for people’s opinions of running Debian vs. Ubuntu Server. A lot of people think there’s no reason to run Ubuntu because it’s just a derivative of Debian.
One person has an actual difference between the two: Debian doesn’t have Upstart. Upstart is the init daemon which starts services, and restarts them if they die. I find it incredibly useful.
Note that Debian 6 does have the service command, which is a lot easier to type than something out of /etc/init.d.
Also, the default Debian install seems to leave a little lacking as far as usability. For example, man doesn’t stop when you page to the end. Rather it falls off the bottom like Solaris, which is annoying.
And then there’s little stuff like no killall command. There’s kill, and there’s killall5, which kills all processes, not exactly what you want when you want to kill a process by name.
So after some experimenting with Debian, I’m back to Ubuntu.
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Yep – I’m a fan or Ubuntu. For me, the choice was easy. When I started looking a Linux distro’s, I found out which one was the most popular, and chose that one.
My reasons were not technical in any way. I figured that the largest distro also had the most info about it on the ‘net. I don’t know about debian, but I have been pleased with my choice of Ubuntu.
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I know this post is a bit dated, but Debian 6 was released before you posted this.
I don’t appear to have the scrolling bug for man you mention
The upstart bug in the original post was marked as fixed back in 2009 and upstart is now available (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/upstart) try doing apt-get install upstart
killall is definitely available on debian 6 default install.
mike@debian-virtualbox:~$ which killall
/usr/bin/killall
mike@debian-virtualbox:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze)
Release: 6.0.3
Codename: squeeze
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