Why does Ubuntu provide a server edition in addition to their desktop edition? It would seem a natural fit to leave servers to Debian and focus their own efforts on delivering the best desktop experience possible.
I agree with this in theory, but there's one big advantage to running the same distro on both workstation and server: versioning and compatibility issues at deployment time more or less disappear.
I run Ubuntu on my development workstation, and deploy to Debian servers. While the environments are almost identical, I've wasted far too many hours tracking down stupid bugs in shared libraries that only occur one one distro or the other.
I run Ubuntu on my development workstation, and deploy to Debian servers. While the environments are almost identical, I've wasted far too many hours tracking down stupid bugs in shared libraries that only occur one one distro or the other.