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Server Distribution of the Year
What distribution do you think is best suited for a server environment?
--jeremy |
Slackware, because systemd.
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Devuan
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Debian works!!!
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Slackware, Slackware, Slackware.
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Been using Arch on my own server - flawless for the last 4 years. Write-in vote for Arch.
Cheers. |
Slackware for everything. Workstation, gaming machine, server :D.
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Didn't vote because I haven't worked with any of these first-hand but I've heard good things about CentOS, and the fact that it's based off of RHEL sounds good to me.
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I have only one in-house server now but in the past I've built servers for small businesses and had a 24/7/365 Minecraft server. In all of these Slackware gave me the power, configurability and security to setup and run exactly as I wanted it to. The few others I tried seemed to attempt to resist or even disallow some of what I wanted, especially if and when there were any difficulties. So while it's been about 3 years since I deployed any truly complex systems, it seems to me the situation has gotten even more in favor of Vanilla, like Slackware provides. I hate "underfoot butlers".
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We shipped CentOS{4,5,6} for years-and-years on our Appliance-Server Boxen.
CentOS 7 is a non-starter for us because of all the gratuitous changes that systemd wrought on our System Administrators, We now ship Slackware64 14.2 for stand-alone appliances. When we need to integrate with an AD Domain, we overlay ivandi's PAM Packages on Slackware 14.2. Awesome combo -- real Linux ! -- kjh |
I might like Salix (Slackware fork) because it lets you add & remove packages with dependencies (if I recall, official sets, and maybe unofficial ones at least if you use sbotools or similar software.) I wouldn't want it for a non-portable workstation PC since one must enter a password, but for a server accessible on the Internet or a network connected to it, one should have a password anyway. Salix has some other nice things, but I haven't got into trying it, but might like to see it on the list next year.
Obviously many like OpenBSD Unix for secure servers, but I guess OSes other than GNU/Linux distributions are excluded... |
Slackware, what else?
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I voted Ubuntu. But I will go back to Debian if/when they ditch SystemD.
(Yes, I know Ubuntu also has SystemD, but I cannot forgive Debian for their catastrophic decision.) |
I used to use Solaris as my home server OS, but I have since made the switch to Centos. So one vote for Centos!
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Slackware for being stable and having no automatic dependency resolution.
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