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View Poll Results: Server Distribution of the Year
CentOS 80 21.86%
ClearOS 0 0%
Container Linux 0 0%
Debian Stable 72 19.67%
Gentoo 6 1.64%
Oracle Linux 0 0%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 42 11.48%
Scientific Linux 0 0%
Slackware 82 22.40%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 4.37%
Ubuntu LTS 68 18.58%
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Old 01-03-2018, 11:37 AM   #1
jeremy
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Server Distribution of the Year


What distribution do you think is best suited for a server environment?

--jeremy
 
Old 01-04-2018, 06:50 AM   #2
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Slackware, because systemd.
 
Old 01-04-2018, 03:15 PM   #3
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Devuan
 
Old 01-05-2018, 02:23 AM   #4
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Debian works!!!
 
Old 01-05-2018, 11:14 AM   #5
Noryungi
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Slackware, Slackware, Slackware.
 
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Old 01-07-2018, 10:45 AM   #6
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Been using Arch on my own server - flawless for the last 4 years. Write-in vote for Arch.

Cheers.
 
Old 01-22-2018, 02:12 PM   #7
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Slackware for everything. Workstation, gaming machine, server .
 
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Old 01-23-2018, 04:54 PM   #8
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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.
 
Old 01-30-2018, 09:55 AM   #9
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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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Old 01-30-2018, 09:55 AM   #10
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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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Old 02-02-2018, 05:40 AM   #11
dchmelik
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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.
 
Old 02-02-2018, 04:24 PM   #12
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Slackware, what else?
 
Old 02-03-2018, 08:28 AM   #13
VamosBaby
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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.)
 
Old 02-03-2018, 09:47 PM   #14
birdy-97
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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!
 
Old 02-03-2018, 10:56 PM   #15
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Distribution: Slackware64, Gentoo
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Slackware for being stable and having no automatic dependency resolution.
 
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