Server Distro 2007

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Which distro do you prefer for the server?

Ubuntu
11
21%
openSUSE
2
4%
SLED
1
2%
Fedora
7
13%
Redhat
4
8%
Mandriva
0
No votes
Debian
15
29%
Slackware
2
4%
MEPIS
0
No votes
KNOPPIX
0
No votes
Gentoo
2
4%
CentOS
7
13%
FreeBSD
1
2%
 
Total votes: 52

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Server Distro 2007

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This a 2007 poll of people's favorite Linux server distro, because the list of top distros changes year to year. This new poll should provide more up-to-date information on what people are using. I have selected the current top ~15 from distrowatch.com (including FreeBSD). If a favorite has been overlooked, let us know.

The previous 2003-2006 poll is here.
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duplicate topic - can you delete this one and sticky the other?

Edit: I'm blind, sorry 8)
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I think CentOS needs to be here, major hosting providers are now using it and offering it to customers.
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It's not a dupe Kieran. This one is about servers, the other is about desktops.
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Fedora Core. Hands down my favorite.
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evilmonkey wrote:I think CentOS needs to be here, major hosting providers are now using it and offering it to customers.
I replaced Zenwalk with CentOS.
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Debian. Last year I would have said Gentoo. Many broken builds and hours wasted fixing portage issues later, I say Debian. Stable, package management that doesn't break (it never has on me yet), extremely fast to do system-wide upgrades... which incidentally, I don't feel the need to hold my breath for before I perform.
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arborint wrote:
evilmonkey wrote:I think CentOS needs to be here, major hosting providers are now using it and offering it to customers.
I replaced Zenwalk with CentOS.
Thank you. I voted Ubuntu because that's what my home server runs. My production webserver runs CentOS.
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RHEL is what we use here, though I'd probably prefer Slackware or Debian. Gentoo would be nice, but hours upon hours of compilation time is not an option.
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Post by alex.barylski »

I voted Debian. :)

I've tried almost every popular distro and apt-get is what appealled to me most.

Why would someone use Ubuntu for server management though? It's a nice desktop platform (the best I've tried) but for server?

In the last month I researched about 1200 hosting companies :P

RedHat (RHEL) is the winner hands down (Fedora core being next) followed right after by Debian. I've seen CentOS a few times, but yea...for servers those four were king!
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Erm... CentOS and RedHat should be combined into one option, cause they're the same minus support. But yeah, I voted for CentOS.

Also... I sense some Ubuntu bias on this forum. I'm not sure Ubuntu makes the best server platform... It's a desktop OS. :lol:
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I voted for Debian too. My second choice would be Slackware.
I've been using Slackware for long time, but recently I've been convinced that Debian is better, so I switched to Debian.
It is still hard to get used to it, but I'm trying :)
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we just buy a hosting plan and it is centOS we are just use it from cpanel and not access it so there is no difference for us
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My vote is for ubuntu, especially for newbies to linux. as stated, its easy and the package management system doesnt break. Plus you can isntall LAMP in a couple easy steps (or just install the version of ubuntu that has LAMP already configured on it).

Ideally I would go with Gentoo, because of speed, there is no other operating system that can compare to the performance of gentoo (AFTER you get everything compiled of course). My desktop system runs gentoo, I can turn on my computer and be into KDE and have firefox open in ~20 seconds. Last time i used ubuntu, it took 1 minute and 30 seconds just to get into the GUI, windows usually takes about 5 to 7 minutes. oh and all the programs run a million times faster as well. but the downside is everything has to be compiled... everything has to be configured... nothing works right out of the box, if it does its a blessing from God. installing LAMP on Gentoo is like walking through hell, over and over and over and over again.
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Sequalit wrote:My vote is for ubuntu, especially for newbies to linux.
I think there's a big misconception regarding Ubuntu here. Ubuntu is not really designed for servers. It's desktop distro. Now, to elaborate on the "misconception", Ubuntu is a Debian distro. That is, Ubuntu is debian prettied up. When you're not using the GUI in ubuntu and you're installing apps via the command line (i.e. the way you run a server) you are using a Debian system. Debian itself is what you want for servers, and if you like Ubuntu and know it well Debian will not feel like a foreign distro to you.

Ubuntu is basically debian made easy at a UI level.
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