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  • Redhat / Fedora

    17 40.48%

  • Debian

    12 28.57%

  • MEPIS

    0 0%

  • OpenBSD / FreeBSD (or any BSD)

    1 2.38%

  • Gentoo

    3 7.14%

  • Mandriva (Mandrake)

    1 2.38%

  • Slackware

    4 9.52%

  • Yoper

    0 0%

  • Suse

    2 4.76%

  • Other

    2 4.76%
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i'm starting a fileserver and hope to eventually use it as a webserver. It's my old desktop computer. It's 1.8 Ghz (i think) AMD, cannot remember how much RAM, two ...
  1. 03-04-2007 #1
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    Question What distro you like best for a server...



    i'm starting a fileserver and hope to eventually use it as a webserver. It's my old desktop computer. It's 1.8 Ghz (i think) AMD, cannot remember how much RAM, two HDs each 40GB. i'm running Debian on it. It runs well and i like how things are going so far. i've used Suse; FC2, 3, 4; Debian and Kubuntu. i've learned that i lean much more toward Debian based distros.

    So vote and tell me what you like to use as a server.
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  2. 03-04-2007 #2
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    I recently upgraded my personal fileserver/webserver to Debian Etch. Very satisfied with it.
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  3. 03-04-2007 #3
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    Debian hands down
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  4. 03-05-2007 #4
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    Yep, Debian, no doubt about it. Even Debian's Testing branch is generally more stable than most other so called "stable" distros.
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  5. 03-05-2007 #5
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    It depends on what I am using the server for. I personally prefer RHEL (CentOS), but also have a web server running on FreeBSD.
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    I voted for Debian, and so far it looks like a Debian run away :P.
    That's my two pence worth.

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  7. 03-05-2007 #7
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    I voted Red Hat / Fedora, but actually, I am using CentOS
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  8. 03-05-2007 #8
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    Yep, CentOS for me too - no question. So I voted RedHat too.
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  9. 03-05-2007 #9
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    SUSE has really worked great for me thus far. I work in an all Suse shop, as well.
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  10. 03-05-2007 #10
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    BSD is good for a server... but Redhat is handy...
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