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stephenr on Dec 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub's Metal Cloud

> why they'd choose Ubuntu over CentOS or RHEL

Maybe they'd actually used them before.

CentOS is a turd of a distribution, I'm certain the only reason it has any marketshare is because it's the only supported "free" OS for cPanel/WHM which a lot of web hosts provide for non-technical customers.

Jgrubb on Dec 3, 2015 | [–]

I personally think it gets share with hosts because it never updates anything so it's less work for them to maintain (which I can't hate on).

otterley on Dec 3, 2015 | [–]

> CentOS is a turd of a distribution

What's the matter with it?

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