View Poll Results: Which one is your favorite Linux distribution for servers?
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Debian
14 31.11% -
RedHat / CentOS
14 31.11% -
Fedora
3 6.67% -
OpenSUSE
1 2.22% -
Mandriva
4 8.89% -
Ubuntu (Any variety)
4 8.89% -
Gentoo
2 4.44% -
Slackware
0 0% -
Other (Please specify)
3 6.67%
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- 12-28-2009 #1Super Moderator
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Favorite Distro for Server Users - 2010
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- 12-28-2009 #2Linux Guru
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I have an old laptop that I use to share some files on the LAN, with transmission-cli and web interface primarily for downloading distros, and a music server, if you will, using MPD.
Tried it with Debian for a while, but had no end of troubles. (Daily kernel panics. No idea why.) Now I run it with Arch, trouble free.
- 12-29-2009 #3Linux Enthusiast
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I go for Debian, as its developers have found a proper balance between stability and flexibility.
- 12-29-2009 #4Super Moderator
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I voted Redhat/CentOS, if I had a mission critical server, I'd probably go with Redhat/CentOS.
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- 12-29-2009 #5Linux Guru
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For a server I want reliability, stability, and long maintenance life. The only one on that list that meets those criteria is RHEL/CentOS. Though ubuntu LTS releases are nearly as good.
- 12-30-2009 #6Linux User
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CentOS all the way
- 12-31-2009 #7Just Joined!
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I voted Debian as I have used it for years. However, at work they wanted something RPM based because the powers that be never heard of Debian and only knew Red hat. But because of costs we run Centos.
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Debian is stable, reliable, and proven. Works for me.
- 01-05-2010 #9Just Joined!
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maybe not a fair vote but only ever used Fedora for ISCSI along with ESX.
Works very well.
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From the Linux point of view : Debian
From mine : FreeBSD 8.0-p1
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