Server Distribution of the Year
 

The Distribution of the Year poll has been broken into three polls this year (Server, Desktop and Live).

--jeremy

One question, is the 2006 in the following a holdover from last year, i.e. should it be 2007?

What about OpenSolaris?

Not Linux but i agree

* Updated the year.
* OpenSolaris is not a Linux distribution.

--jeremy

missed: OpenSolaris + FreeBSD + NetBSD + OpenBSD + Arch Linux + BusyBox (for embedded)

As stated above solaris is not a Linux distribution and neither are any bsd's.

"Server Distribution of the Year" does not mean "Linux Server Distribution of the Year"

Even better argument is that BSD's and Solaris a re in many ways a lot more better suited for Server work.

No Archlinux? :(

Unless of course it's on linuxquestions.org ;)

Arch is in the desktop poll.

--jeremy

Along with bsdquestions.org ;)

I think it's a legitimate point. There are OpenSolaris and *BSD subforums here.

i dont see clark connect its a linux distro and very popular

It may be a bit mis-categorized, but I would consider IPCop a server distribution (sort of...)

On the servers I administer Gentoo is the one I like the most. Portage is very nice and it is great how you can minimise the number of installed applications/features so that it run only what is needed.

I love Red Hat...but Voted for CentOS because that's what I learned on before actually working as a SysAdmin...It has a special place in my Heart... :)

I second that. Installed CentOS 5.1 on my mother's computer just the other day, coming from Fedora Core 6, and she just loves it. 8-) I wouldn't say it's a specialised server-OS though.

You should change the label "CentOS" to "CentOS, Scientific Linux, StartCom Linux AS, X/OS or other RHEL clones".

You should change the label "Slackware" to "Slackware, Bluewhite64 or Slamd64".

Gentoo does everything a server ever needs, and comes with no surprises (daemons you don't need to run.)

No Mandriva. Makes a great Server.

Replaced our SLES servers with Debian Etch servers. Faster, leaner, free.

Slackware,
for I run two of those @company I work for.

Only downtime was from power outages -ever. and 45minutes while upgrading from 10.2 to 11.0 (the mail server one).

Slackware - power to those who need it and when they need it.

To Everyone that posted,

Any *nix can be used as a server...I can install apache on Ubuntu and call it a web server.

Some distros are designed for "Servers" in mind...and others with "Desktop" in mind. That's what this poll is about. To avoid confusion, it should say "Best distro that was designed for Servers"...but you'd think that us "Genius Linux Users" would figure that out ;)

I'm just waiting for:"I just installed apache on my PCLinuxOS machine...how come PCLinuxOS isn't on this poll?" :D

-C

That's about right too - I use Fedora for my servers. Have since RedHat went non-free.

I'm unsure what the aim of this poll is.

I use EnGarde Secure Linux on my box at home... (engardelinux.org)

I personally use Crux linux (http://crux.nu/) for my 'server'. Then again, although it's nice and fast, I don't really use it for extreme loads. Just an idea.

pclinuxos
 

pclinuxos is my choice!

debian will of course win this.
people administering debian servers have lots of time to do random fun things like vote here...

Debian server admins have more time?
 

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

Is it? :study:

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.

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

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

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.

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

...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)

ClarkConnect
 

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

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

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

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

I agree! :D

SME Server...?

Endian Firewall Community Release...?

They are Linux Servers

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

Please put in BSD next year
 

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.

Well this is LinuxQuestions.org. Not surprised that they talk about Linux here. I think the mods have been asked that question several times since I have been here. Any comparison of which is best or how they compare doing tasks will just degenerate into a flame war. Both do the job well. Plus this is a Linux site.

If you want BSD specific info or forums, there are forums here. You may know about some or all of these.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/
http://www.bsdforums.org/
http://daemonforums.org/
http://forums.bsdnexus.com/
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ook/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

Oh and here is why BSD is superior to Linux ô¿ô
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html

Although not explicitly stated, this member choice award is really "Linux kernel based Server Distribution of the Year". I guess adding BSD and Solaris based distributions in it would lead to disappointing numbers for their supporters.

Perhaps a "Non-Linux still open source distribution award" would fill the gap ...