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View Poll Results: Server Distribution of the Year
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CentOS
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80 |
21.86% |
ClearOS
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0 |
0% |
Container Linux
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0 |
0% |
Debian Stable
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72 |
19.67% |
Gentoo
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6 |
1.64% |
Oracle Linux
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0 |
0% |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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42 |
11.48% |
Scientific Linux
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0 |
0% |
Slackware
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82 |
22.40% |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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16 |
4.37% |
Ubuntu LTS
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68 |
18.58% |
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01-03-2018, 11:37 AM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,620
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Server Distribution of the Year
What distribution do you think is best suited for a server environment?
--jeremy
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01-04-2018, 06:50 AM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2014
Posts: 957
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Slackware, because systemd.
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01-04-2018, 03:15 PM
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#3
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Member
Registered: Nov 2014
Location: Austin, TX
Distribution: Mint, Devuan, MX, Ubuntu, ArcoLinux on hardware; vboxes of varying flavors
Posts: 42
Rep: 
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Devuan
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01-05-2018, 02:23 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 51
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Debian works!!!
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01-05-2018, 11:14 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: --> X <-- You are here.
Distribution: Slackware, OpenBSD
Posts: 305
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Slackware, Slackware, Slackware.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-07-2018, 10:45 AM
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#6
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2014
Location: Montreal, Quebec and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia CANADA
Distribution: Arch, AntiX, ArtiX
Posts: 1,364
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Been using Arch on my own server - flawless for the last 4 years. Write-in vote for Arch.
Cheers.
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01-22-2018, 02:12 PM
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#7
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Hell, Arizona (July - 118 degrees)
Distribution: Slackware 14.2 soon to be Slackware 15
Posts: 700
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Slackware for everything. Workstation, gaming machine, server  .
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-23-2018, 04:54 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2014
Distribution: Ubuntu MATE
Posts: 65
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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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01-30-2018, 09:55 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Virginia
Distribution: Slackware = Main OpSys
Posts: 5,082
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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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2 members found this post helpful.
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01-30-2018, 09:55 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Round Rock, TX
Distribution: Slackware64 15.0 + Multilib
Posts: 2,159
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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
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3 members found this post helpful.
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02-02-2018, 05:40 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware, FreeBSD, FreeDOS, Illumos, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, Replicant, Plan9, Inferno, HURD
Posts: 1,275
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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...
Last edited by dchmelik; 02-02-2018 at 05:41 AM.
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02-02-2018, 04:24 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Portugal
Distribution: Slackware, Fedora
Posts: 38
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Slackware, what else?
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02-03-2018, 08:28 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2016
Location: Barcelona
Posts: 34
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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.)
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02-03-2018, 09:47 PM
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#14
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2017
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Distribution: Debian 8.7, OpenIndiana 17.10, Centos 7, Linux Mint
Posts: 18
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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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02-03-2018, 10:56 PM
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#15
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Israel
Distribution: Slackware64, Gentoo
Posts: 74
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Slackware for being stable and having no automatic dependency resolution.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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