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View Poll Results: Server Distribution of the Year
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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80 |
10.40% |
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CentOS
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99 |
12.87% |
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Ubuntu LTS
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88 |
11.44% |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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41 |
5.33% |
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Gentoo
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46 |
5.98% |
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Slackware
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174 |
22.63% |
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Debian
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233 |
30.30% |
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LFS
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8 |
1.04% |
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01-04-2008, 09:28 AM
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#16
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Slovenia
Distribution: openSUSE
Posts: 71
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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.
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01-04-2008, 04:06 PM
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#17
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: California
Distribution: Fedora , CentOS , RHEL
Posts: 1,979
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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...  |
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01-07-2008, 03:53 AM
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#18
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Distribution: CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, Windows
Posts: 21
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Quote:
Originally Posted by custangro
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. |
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01-07-2008, 07:08 AM
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#19
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Romania
Distribution: UBUNTU Hoary, SuSE 9.3, slack 10.1
Posts: 19
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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".
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01-07-2008, 05:53 PM
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#20
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Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 172
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Gentoo does everything a server ever needs, and comes with no surprises (daemons you don't need to run.)
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01-07-2008, 07:25 PM
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#21
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Posts: 4
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No Mandriva. Makes a great Server.
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01-09-2008, 12:32 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: St Petersburg, FL, USA
Posts: 220
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Replaced our SLES servers with Debian Etch servers. Faster, leaner, free.
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01-09-2008, 07:01 AM
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#23
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Cp6uja
Distribution: Slackware on x86 and arm
Posts: 2,557
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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.
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01-09-2008, 12:45 PM
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#24
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: California
Distribution: Fedora , CentOS , RHEL
Posts: 1,979
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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?" 
-C |
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01-15-2008, 03:18 AM
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#25
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Member
Registered: May 2006
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Distribution: Fedora 6-17 x64 / Ubuntu 10.x x64
Posts: 95
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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.
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01-15-2008, 05:45 AM
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#26
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2006
Posts: 1
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I use EnGarde Secure Linux on my box at home... (engardelinux.org)
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01-15-2008, 02:15 PM
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#27
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Distribution: Mandriva 2008.0 (w/ 2007.1 non-free)
Posts: 13
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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. |
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01-15-2008, 04:48 PM
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#28
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Distribution: PcLinuxOx
Posts: 12
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pclinuxos
pclinuxos is my choice!
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01-16-2008, 06:48 AM
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#29
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: germany
Distribution: debian
Posts: 255
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debian will of course win this.
people administering debian servers have lots of time to do random fun things like vote here...
Last edited by baikonur; 01-16-2008 at 06:49 AM.
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01-16-2008, 11:25 PM
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#30
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Member
Registered: May 2006
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Distribution: Fedora 6-17 x64 / Ubuntu 10.x x64
Posts: 95
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Debian server admins have more time?
Quote:
Originally Posted by baikonur
debian will of course win this.
people administering debian servers have lots of time to do random fun things like vote here...
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Are you saying that LinuxQuestions.org is run on Debian? ;-) |
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