Today i switched from centOS to Ubuntu 7.10 server addition. It really amaze me with installation time. i installed and ready with the server within 15 mins. More importantly, i no need to bother about which particular services i need to keep activated on my machine. Default installation will take care of that.

Server response was very good. Well it is a debain based package. I am from red-hat background. First time i was not very comfortable with ubuntu. because some of the important utilities like chkconfig was not available with ubuntu. but they gave a update-rc.d as an alternative of chkconfig.
You can use it like update-rc.d <filename-placed-in-init.d> defaults
This command will enable to run particular service at boot time. One more tip is ”default run level of ubuntu is 2″.

I would love to explore ubuntu more.