Best Server Linux Distro?

Kent · 14 Feb 2007 at 12:57

Hi, what's the best Distro for a VPS server? Thanks.

The options I have are;

- CentOS 3.x
- CentOS 4.x
- Fedora Core 1
- Fedora Core 2
- Fedora Core 3
- Fedora Core 4
- Fedora Core 5
- RedHat 9

Dj_Jestar · 14 Feb 2007 at 13:15

Out of those, I'd go for CentOS.

Kent · 14 Feb 2007 at 13:21

Dj_Jestar said:
Out of those, I'd go for CentOS.

Which one? 3.x or 4.x?

AndrewP · 14 Feb 2007 at 13:57

CentOS for me too.

4 is the current one, and has been out for a while, 3 is getting a bit creaky these days and most of its packages are pretty old, like MySQL 3 and I think still the 2.4 kernel.

riddlermarc · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:32

4.4 is the latest, and I assume when RHEL5 comes out there will be a Centos 5 following closely behind it

Dj_Jestar · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:47

CentOS 4.latest, sorry.

Latest and greatest where ever applicable, imo. There's a reason it has a higher version number, and except for certain situations, it's because it will be an improvement over the lesser number versions.