I'm going to be setting up an apache/sendmail web and e-mail server. I've had a lot of experience with SuSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu so I'm more than likely going to use one of these three as the server's OS. I'll give my thoughts on each and I'd like to hear some other peoples' opinions.

SuSE - SuSE 9.3 seems to have the best GUI interface to configure a server. YaST will pretty much configure anything.

Fedora Core 3 or 4 - The server I'm replacing is a redhat 9 machine and Fedora is pretty much identical to redhat 9, at least in terms of menu options and layouts. That doesnt really matter to me but there are a couple of other that are going to be maintaining the machine so they might appreciate a familiar layout.

Ubuntu - It's all about Synaptic. I setup an Ubuntu web server at home and I was able to install all of the apache2 modules from the Synaptic Package Manager.

In my eyes its really down to SuSE or Ubuntu. what do you all think?

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Honestly I wouldn't go with SuSE, while it might generally serve your purpose, it was built to be a desktop not a server. I actually setup a dev site in SuSE (Webmaster by trade) and it was very hard, for me atleast to get the performance i wanted out of it. Ubuntu I've actually just started playing around in, so I'm not 100% sure about that one. But if I had to choose between SuSE and Ubuntu, I'd choose Ubuntu, because it does offer the packages, but also gives you all the freedoms you'd want with a OS(just like debian offers you). My main site sits on a (just updated) FC3 box and has been up for 3 months now w/o any problems. So I would actually choose FC3, but thats just me. Actually I'd rather be on Slackware or Gentoo, but thats just me

I also have site sitting on a Win2k(I do a lot of ASP) box and it just doesn't compare to FC3.

I've decided to download CentOS and give that a try on a spare home server. If I like it that may be what I end up using on the new servers at work. Does anyone have any experience with CentOS? Likes/Dislikes?