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Comment by sharjeel | Hacker News Reader

I personally prefer Ubuntu because the support is great in terms of community as well as repositories.

When you are doing a startup, your time is very limited and I believe you should go for anything that saves time & hassle without trading off much.

Btw if you are on Windows right now, you can still install and use Apache on it. There are differences but it'll be good enough for prototyping.

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Thanks. This is something my friend also suggested. We want to get started quickly and the amount of time we have is minimal. The only concern I had was if ubuntu can be used as a server platform. Most of the review talks about ubuntu being a desktop OS. Can I use ubuntu for a server grade system?

Yes, you can get Ubuntu Server Edition from http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition

We have been using it on our servers and haven't had any problems.

I agree with both qhoxie and sharjeel here, as they both make great points. Ubuntu has a GREAT community support and a huge list of repos, but jusst like qhoxie said, if you're developing it really doesn't matter what you use.

As is the case, in my opinion with anything, just how you use it.

i'm alway wary about 'great support' ... it implicitly means the product is broken people always ask for help

and to be fair less / no support may mean the product is so good that noone complains (it just works TM) or it's simply dead

on topic: contrast ubuntu and openbsd

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