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View Poll Results: Server Distribution of the Year
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Debian
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138 |
31.15% |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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47 |
10.61% |
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CentOS
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62 |
14.00% |
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Scientific Linux
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5 |
1.13% |
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Ubuntu LTS
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40 |
9.03% |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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11 |
2.48% |
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Gentoo
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8 |
1.81% |
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Slackware
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129 |
29.12% |
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Mandriva Enterprise Server
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2 |
0.45% |
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Oracle Enterprise Linux
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1 |
0.23% |
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01-17-2012, 07:02 AM
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#31
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Carshalton, Surrey, UK.
Distribution: Pinguy OS 11.04 x86_64
Posts: 15
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My son uses Ubuntu on our home server. It works - and I expect all the others do too - so I can only go with my limited experience.
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01-17-2012, 12:19 PM
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#32
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Member
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: Kerala, South India
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.10, Ultimate Edition 3.5, OZ Unity 3.0 Black Opal
Posts: 117
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RHEL
RHEL is my choice
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01-18-2012, 04:11 AM
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#33
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Member
Registered: Sep 2007
Location: /root/
Distribution: Arch, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, Slackware, Solaris, SuSE (Open & SLES)
Posts: 115
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Quote:
Originally Posted by noah_vale
My son uses Ubuntu on our home server. It works - and I expect all the others do too - so I can only go with my limited experience.
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To be honest, I hate Ubuntu on servers (in fact, both Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server).
But then I guess this is a "pick a favourite" rather than "pick the best" poll. |
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01-19-2012, 08:42 AM
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#34
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 18
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And now I can vote for Slackware  |
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01-31-2012, 10:41 PM
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#35
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Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Cambodia
Distribution: suse
Posts: 36
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There is the regular OpenSuSE server missing above
that is my choice since many years for all my servers
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01-31-2012, 11:11 PM
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#36
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Distribution: [F\W] Debian Etch, [Hamshack] Debian Etch, [Lptp] Debian Sid, [Wkstn] Ubuntu 7.04, [NFS] Debian Etch
Posts: 12
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Debian is my choice, however, I have CentOS on my server, which I find have made things a little easier to configure. Debian is starting to make slight changes in config files, which sometimes can be annoying.
IMHO Debian only beat CentOS due to Open Source Philosophy, as well as creating the distro themselves, as opposed to using Redhat Sources.
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01-31-2012, 11:15 PM
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#37
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Distribution: [F\W] Debian Etch, [Hamshack] Debian Etch, [Lptp] Debian Sid, [Wkstn] Ubuntu 7.04, [NFS] Debian Etch
Posts: 12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by metalaarif
I wish I could vote for CentOS as well but voted for Debian why because it's the best.
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Yes, I too struggled to pick between them.. however, had to go with Debian purely on fact it's not a clone of RedHat. |
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02-01-2012, 06:45 AM
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#38
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2009
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 20
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Server Dist
Debian. Safe and secure............
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02-01-2012, 10:27 AM
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#39
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: London, ON, Canada
Distribution: Arch, Ubuntu, Slackware, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
Posts: 1,853
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Debian, most certainly Debian.
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02-01-2012, 02:52 PM
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#40
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 4
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I can't find Zentyal....
That's would get my vote!
Or then eBox (on Ubuntu Server).
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02-01-2012, 03:25 PM
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#41
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2010
Posts: 2
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I'm well with Debian Lenny.
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02-01-2012, 07:50 PM
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#42
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Member
Registered: Feb 2010
Location: London, UK
Distribution: Slackware -current; Scientific Linux; CentOS; Debian
Posts: 363
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400+ boxes humming away, but Nagios is silent...
Debian..  |
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02-01-2012, 11:51 PM
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#43
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2012
Posts: 5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PrinceCruise
I just voted for RHEL on the basis of experience of the server OSs I have worked on so far.
I'm pretty sure Slackware can become a great server OS, given it reaches to the masses that way others are.
If it's not for Linux only, I would've gone for Solaris, ya know. 
Regards,
Prince |
Let's do heartbeat with the same heart |
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02-02-2012, 02:06 AM
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#44
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2012
Posts: 26
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I guess I am the odd one out since I like Ubuntu LTS on every one of my servers.
It's stable, fast and easy to setup. I just love apt/dpkg.
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02-02-2012, 05:56 AM
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#45
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2011
Posts: 13
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CentOS is good
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