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Server Distro 2007

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:50 pm
by Christopher
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:17 pm
by Kieran Huggins
duplicate topic - can you delete this one and sticky the other?

Edit: I'm blind, sorry 8)

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:28 pm
by evilmonkey
I think CentOS needs to be here, major hosting providers are now using it and offering it to customers.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:55 pm
by feyd
It's not a dupe Kieran. This one is about servers, the other is about desktops.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:01 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Fedora Core. Hands down my favorite.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:28 pm
by Christopher
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:29 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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.

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:18 am
by evilmonkey
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.

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:37 am
by Jenk
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.

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:46 am
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!

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:09 pm
by Bryan
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:

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:33 pm
by VladSun
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 :)

Re: Server Distro 2007

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:39 am
by hannnndy
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

Re: Server Distro 2007

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:03 pm
by Sequalit
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.

Re: Server Distro 2007

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:59 am
by Chris Corbyn
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.