Install on rpm-based OS.
- Thread starter Yuri-01
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Ubuntu provides quite modern kernels, good tested and widely used and certified by a lot of hardware vendors. A recent kernel is essential to get best performance and best hardware support and best security fixes.
Our upcoming 5.2 release will use a 4.15 kernel (based on Ubuntu 18.04). (Debian stable is running a 4.9 kernel)
Debian is the best suited base distribution for Proxmox VE. This is also true for many other Debian based distribution like Ubuntu.
An important reason to use Debian is that Debian offers a much more smooth experience when doing major version upgrades.
I almost never hit issues upgrading Debian from 5 to 6, 6 to 7, all the way up to 10 beta.
Ubuntu, however, brings much more problems when you dist-upgrade.
On the kernel side, Ubuntu upgrades and releases their stable kernel frequently, compared to Debian stable releases.
Totally agree with you!
Oh yeah! Just this week while updating to 18.04 ... Ubuntu is like Windows ... if the update breaks, reinstall. Not because it is necessary, but because it is the fastest way to get a working system again.
Yeah still remember last week we were chatting about how suck the April update is, when all in a sudden we noticed that half of us were mentioning Windows 18.04 and the other half Ubuntu 18.04. XD