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I'm curious because I don't follow server distro updates often: what server-side stuff did Ubuntu improve on? I was under the impression that most of their gains were on new user experience as opposed to traditional administration.

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This may seem like a stupid little thing, but I particularly love what they have done with GNU Screen, which is now called Byobu on Ubuntu.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Byobu

They have created Screen, and they have a lot of Cloud tools they've created based on Openstack. They also have some better default service configurations. [citation needed].

Canonical did not create screen; it is a GNU project that existed before Ubuntu ever did. They did, however, develop an extended, improved version of it (byobu).

It isn't really a "version" of screen. It is a bunch of scripts and wrappers using/around hooks that screen had built in (but hardly anyone ever knew existed).

It is a rather nice little set of basic improvements though.

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