On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> The Ubuntus boot directly into the GUI and that tends to be more
> comfortable for newly defenestrated users. If you like that, but want the
> more open and readily-available equivalent, install Debian. The ubuntus are
> derivatives of debian.
Note that Ubuntu also comes in a GUI free server edition as well. I
can definitely state that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server edition is rock
solid stable for the hardware I've run it on (48 core AMD and 40 core
Intel machines with LSI, Arecam and 3Ware cards)