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    I've set up a small home server. Its running a Java game server and a website for just a couple of a people at any given time. Call it 10-15 people at once.

    I've just upgraded it with a new power efficient PSU and a new fan so it's running nice and silent as well as not burning up a tonne of power.


    Right now its running on Windows 2008 R2 and I'm thinking about transferring it across onto something linux based. System usage isn't a problem like CPU/RaM as the only real bottleneck is my upload speeds. The only real concerns I have are Performance and Power Savings.

    What advantage would linux give my home server? and what distro would you recommend if its even worth changing?
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    I'd like to start using linux based OS's more but not if they are a performance / efficiency loss as to me it would be stupid to lose performance / efficiency when windows is working fine. Any opinions or information on the situation would be helpful.
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    If anything, switching to a Linux operating system will probably improve system efficiency. There are server versions of many distributions. I use a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 clone called Scientific Linux myself, but a lot of people also use the Ubuntu server edition with good results.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
    Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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    eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-takes-on-windows-with-launch-of-rhel-6-13185

    Red Hat engineers worked on kernel improvements and power management to make RHEL 6 power-efficient, to the tune of using 40 percent less electricity, said Totton. Some of these changes had been introduced in RHEL 5.4 in the spring. With these changes in place, Red Hat engineers managed to squeeze out an additional 25 percent more energy efficiency in RHEL 6
    I guess this carries across into Scientific? Looks nice, I might give this a try and see how things go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sayton12 View Post
    eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-takes-on-windows-with-launch-of-rhel-6-13185

    I guess this carries across into Scientific? Looks nice, I might give this a try and see how things go.
    It should. Basically, SL6 and CentOS 6 are RHEL 6 with copyrighted icons and graphics changed. The kernel is vanilla Red Hat code.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
    Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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