So at the college's web group swidi (student web innovation and design initiative) we tore down our old ubuntu server and reinstalled with straight up debian. (We wanted to go a bit lighter than what ubuntu had to offer for the moment. Plus the set up of the original server had some issues that needed to be fixed)
That said, what amazed me is that we had a working server with apache2, php, ssh, sftp, and X/gnome in under 3 hours with little to no configuring. (secuirty measures nonwithstanding)
Linux has really come a long way from only 5-6 years ago.
Tomorrow sees mysql and subversion!
