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View Poll Results: Server Distribution of the Year
CentOS 95 15.91%
Debian 143 23.95%
Gentoo 10 1.68%
Mandriva Enterprise Server 4 0.67%
Oracle Enterprise Linux 3 0.50%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 51 8.54%
Scientific Linux 6 1.01%
Slackware 190 31.83%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 19 3.18%
Ubuntu LTS 76 12.73%
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Old 01-07-2014, 12:11 PM   #16
cowlitzron
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Debian should be the standard for servers. Plenty of server packages, support for plenty of platforms. Uses the package manager and package format used by most GNU/Linux users.
 
Old 01-12-2014, 06:01 AM   #17
dragoon_jas
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Slackware, is the best! very stable, we have no problem for our mailserver for almost 5 years, installed in a P4 clone PC.
Talking about stability, security, speed, and robustness it's proven.
 
Old 01-15-2014, 03:17 AM   #18
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CentOS
 
Old 01-15-2014, 03:21 AM   #19
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I use RHEL, CentOS and Slackware but I think Slackware is the Best
 
Old 01-15-2014, 07:36 AM   #20
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CentOS
 
Old 01-15-2014, 08:04 AM   #21
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I am going with Slackware
 
Old 01-17-2014, 01:24 AM   #22
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For light in-house servers (to run things like git, jenkins, databases etc) I run OpenSUSE. Just as easy to install as my desktop. It has proven to meet our needs and it is very stable.
Running Evergreen versions gets me prolonged updates.
 
Old 01-17-2014, 07:44 AM   #23
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I voted CentOS as our company uses that on it's managed servers.
It is predictable and easily configured and serviced.

I can't tell you how many times an "apt-get install x" has broken things.
Not everything in a Ubuntu repo works OOTB.
 
Old 01-19-2014, 06:52 PM   #24
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CentOS. It's free. It's solid and each release has a very long life.
 
Old 01-20-2014, 07:10 PM   #25
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I really like Debian Stable for servers. And it is quite good for desktop also.
 
Old 01-22-2014, 08:38 AM   #26
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I use Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS , Gentoo looks interesting with openrc init system on the server side
 
Old 01-25-2014, 12:53 PM   #27
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Quote:
Originally Posted by taurolyon View Post
From this list, Deb or Cent - but I'd probably build an Arch system from the ground up.
Even for server side of things, eh? And I'm not just thinking about running lts kernel here, but don't you think maybe a bit too bleeding edge? Yeah, rolling distros tend to find, and fix, things quickly, but maybe a bit too risky for applications where stability is key consideration? Seriously, I'm curious if anyone other than Arch project itself is really running this server side in a production environment?
 
Old 01-29-2014, 07:11 AM   #28
touch21st
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Suse, Red hat, Debian
 
Old 02-02-2014, 05:32 PM   #29
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gotfw View Post
Even for server side of things, eh? And I'm not just thinking about running lts kernel here, but don't you think maybe a bit too bleeding edge?
I am no expert but I have heard that some people prize Arch as a server OS. One reason being that the changes come in very small packages and are easy for sysadmins to adapt to, as opposed to a full reinstall with massive changes, another strength is that you quickly get security patches straight from the source code developers, this is a nice contrast to servers such as Debian and RHEL witch has to maintain essentialy legacy software.

But if you are planing to run Arch as a server you *NEED* to subscribe to the security newsfeed and always check it before doing system updates. It is also probably wise to exclude mission critical packages from your package manager, and update these manually.

Conclusion: It is possible to use Arch as a server, but I don't know if it would be "better" then the more traditional server distros, and I would not recommend it to lazy sysadmins

Last edited by dansimon; 02-02-2014 at 05:35 PM.
 
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Old 02-03-2014, 07:14 PM   #30
ganey
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CentOS. I like RHEL systems and building from source. Yes sometimes I have more debugging to do, but I have more control and don't just go with they "okay install all the deps for me"

I only recently updated a Cent5 to the latest Cent6, everything was still working on the 5 box.
 
  


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