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Which version of a linux server would be the best choice to learn on for a newbie and which are the most used in a real world workkplace?...
- 09-19-2011 #1Just Joined!
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What to choose for a server?
Which version of a linux server would be the best choice to learn on for a newbie and which are the most used in a real world workkplace?
- 09-19-2011 #2Trusted Penguin
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Hello and Welcome!
We have a poll, found here, where we give our thoughts on that.
in the work place, the larger companies commonly use RHEL and SLED.Jay
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- 09-21-2011 #3Linux Guru
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I can say from personal experience that CentOS is a good choice for a server platform to learn on - it is a free clone of RHEL (which as Jay mentioned is the leading open source server platform) and has great community support (when you factor in RH/Fedora distros). CentOS is perfectly good and useful as a personal use machine, as well, if you want to double it as a workstation.
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I am reading about Ubuntu Server 10. It seems to be stable and heavily supported. Since I'm a Linux newbie, I think it would be a good system to start.
- 09-22-2011 #5Blackfooted Penguin
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Why not just start with the latest version which is 11.04?
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The books I've been reading was on Ubuntu Server 10. Right now, Ubuntu Server 11 is still pretty new. Some of the packages I want to install, such as the security stuff, are still pretty new. At least with Ubuntu Server 10, I know that those packages are stable. However, I am a newbie. I just want to know the basics before I start with the new stuff. I'm willing to receive advice though. Originally Posted by daark.child
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For practice purposes, I don't see any difference between using 10.x and 11.x. They are more or less the same except for 11.x having newer packages. Anyway you can easily adapt what you have learnt for server 10.x to server 11.x systems. I don't know if 10.x is more stable than 11.x. They undergo the same qa testing (which is done over a shorter period than that of RHEL, Debian Stable and SLES), so to me it doesn't matter which version you choose unless you want long term support. Originally Posted by MariaV
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Just try as many as possible. Give them a good test drive and then make a choice.
I personally favour Debian/Ubuntu Server and Gentoo. For the newbie I'd say Ubuntu Server out of the three, but you should just try and see your self, as you probably know your self the best.
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