what distro for server? cent os?
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Well I am a redhat guy so would suggest centos every time with no exceptions for a server build.
Ubuntu is a desktop distro in my opinion.
Ultimately I guess it depends on what it will be used for & your level of knowledge with each flavour.
Ubuntu is a desktop distro in my opinion.
Ultimately I guess it depends on what it will be used for & your level of knowledge with each flavour.
Redhat (centos) is DESIGNED as an enterprise server solution. It is 100% stable & reliable in my experience.
We have dozens of rhel installations at work, no ubuntu ones
Im not knocking ubuntu as I havent used it that much. For a home server if thats what you are comfortable with then I expect it will be fine.
We have dozens of rhel installations at work, no ubuntu ones
Im not knocking ubuntu as I havent used it that much. For a home server if thats what you are comfortable with then I expect it will be fine.
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The Ubuntu Server edition is perfectly adequate for a server, CentOS is good, Gentoo if you spend the time to fine tune it, the BSD's seem to get recommended for security
All much of a muchness IMHO - so long as you're using server varients - ubuntu desktop is rubbish as a server - just due to the way the default packages are set up.
All much of a muchness IMHO - so long as you're using server varients - ubuntu desktop is rubbish as a server - just due to the way the default packages are set up.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend Ubuntu as a server distro... it's a great home distro but I don't know why but I can't see it as a server distro for some reason. Debian - which Ubuntu is based on - however, is a great server distro.
Just overlook the recent crypto bug announced with Debian-based distros...
However, CentOS is a good distro too, so even if you go down that route it's not a bad decision.
Just overlook the recent crypto bug announced with Debian-based distros...
However, CentOS is a good distro too, so even if you go down that route it's not a bad decision.
It's the fact that it's derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source. RHEL is a commercial product, with the backing, R&D, investment and support of the Red Hat company, so you're effectively getting for free a product that many large organisations are prepared to pay considerable amounts of money for.
It really depends on what you intend using this server for. If its just for home use then pretty much any distro will do it after all linux is linux. I use debian for my home servers, Mainly because I use it on the dekstop and know my way around. if on the other hand you intend using it for some sort of work enviroment then go for something like centos or even one of the bsd's they are built from the ground up with security in mind.