Server Distribution of the Year

theriddle · 01-17-2008, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaughingBoy

Are you saying that LinuxQuestions.org is run on Debian? ;-)

Is it?

teckk · 01-19-2008, 01:50 PM

Not Linux but I vote for FreeBSD followed by Open Solaris. Because they both can stand up to a heavy load without falling on their face even on meager machines better than any Linux flavor I have tried, are easily upgradeable with complete docs telling you exactly how to do it, are very stable, come fairly locked down out of the box. If a FreeBSD machine does something it's because you told it to do it.

IMHO FreeBSD has documentation and a ports/package system second to none. I've yet to figure out how to make a FreeBSD machine crash unless you update it half way and then stop, purposely screw the kernel up, delete some system files or the MBR, issue swapoff -a without enough RAM or something user caused like that.

I wish that APM was a little farther advanced on open source operating systems.

I vote Centos or RHEL if I have to use a Linux server. Because I have used them with success, they can be updated rather easily with yum, good support if you search a little, more applications than you can use, 3 or 4 that will do the exact same thing well, come with lots of tools to make admin easier, have several repos on the web for software, have better printer support than the BSD's and generally do a good job.

FredGSanford · 01-19-2008, 02:04 PM

Redhat & Debian are my choices! With debian being my first choice.

munkie_poo · 01-20-2008, 08:52 PM

I use Arch for my server... but I'll go for slackware, its what i'd use if Arch wasnt around.

jantman · 01-27-2008, 12:58 AM

How about openSuSE? Most of my servers run it, and have been running SuSE since 7.3... quite a few years now...

Given the subforums, I think that OpenSolaris would be a nice addition, as well as the 3 BSD's. I know they won't come up near the top, but it's nice for us to include others...they may not be based on the Linux kernel, but do have similar uses, and similar goals.

Personally, I have boxen running various Linux flavors, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD... the right tool for the job.

custangro · 01-27-2008, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theriddle

Is it?

I looks like linuxquestions.org is run on Red Hat or a Red Hat variant...

Code:

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2008-01-27 09:36 PST
Interesting ports on web2.linuxquestions.org (64.179.4.146):
....
TCP/IP fingerprint:
SInfo(V=4.11%P=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu%D=1/27%Tm=479CC139%O=80%C=1)
TSeq(Class=TR%IPID=Z%TS=1000HZ)
T1(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=16A0%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNNTNW)
...

...But then again I've seen wrong output with nmap in the past....

-C
(P.S. I've left some stuff out on the output that I didn't think was important...)

theriddle · 01-27-2008, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by custangro

I looks like linuxquestions.org is run on Red Hat or a Red Hat variant...

Code:

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2008-01-27 09:36 PST
Interesting ports on web2.linuxquestions.org (64.179.4.146):
....
TCP/IP fingerprint:
SInfo(V=4.11%P=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu%D=1/27%Tm=479CC139%O=80%C=1)
TSeq(Class=TR%IPID=Z%TS=1000HZ)
T1(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=16A0%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNNTNW)
...

...But then again I've seen wrong output with nmap in the past....

-C
(P.S. I've left some stuff out on the output that I didn't think was important...)

It seems like Red Hat (64bit RH to be exact)

alanr1138 · 02-02-2008, 10:13 PM

ClarkConnect is based on CentOS, so I voted for it.

bathory · 02-15-2008, 05:56 AM

Slackware
Using it for almost 10 years, never had problems with it.

Ian_Hawdon · 02-15-2008, 08:22 AM

Couldn't find Ubuntu Server edition, but Ubuntu LTS is close enough :-)

arijit_2404 · 02-15-2008, 09:12 AM

CentOS is free and fast. I liked it very much.

custangro · 02-15-2008, 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arijit_2404

CentOS is free and fast. I liked it very much.

I agree!

blackfish · 02-15-2008, 10:22 AM

SME Server...?

Endian Firewall Community Release...?

They are Linux Servers

diilbert · 02-16-2008, 03:48 PM

Debian just happens to be my money maker, and has best binary package management hands down.

mrtwice · 05-05-2008, 08:26 AM

I read some of the posts and questions about BSD not being in the poll. FWIW, I would really like to see how BSD stacks up to the *nix distributions. +1 vote for putting BSD in the poll next year.