Distro Choice

[xvampyricx]

Right now, I'm running Fedora Core 10 on my Linux Box.

I'm going to be using it to run a full webserver on, with FTP, MySQL, PHP, cURL, Perl, Ruby-On-Rails, Apache, SMTP, POP3.. and eventually I'm going to add a WHM, and cPanel for webhosting.

What is your recommendation, pref. something with a graphical install, and that is easy to setup. One thing I liked about FC10 is that I didn't have to manually install my WiFi adapter, it worked straight out of install. (adapter is a netgear wg311t pci)

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+
GPU: nVidia GeForce 4 IGP
Chipset: nVidia nForce2
RAM: 512MB DDR333
HDD: 160GB

EDIT:
I've already installed almost all of my web server software (php, mysql, apache, etc..)

But I'm not seeing them startup when I booted up the box, so I'm not sure if they were running or not. I haven't ran a webserver off linux for about 3-4 years, so I still am refreshing my mind.

[GNU-Fan]

Hmm, this is the third request for a recommendation of a distribution today on this forum. Funny.
As always, I recommend Fedora.

[xvampyricx]

Hmm, this is the third request for a recommendation of a distribution today on this forum. Funny.
As always, I recommend Fedora.

So I was correct in choosing Fedora.. okay.
Any differences between the different versions, or should I stick with Core 10?

[coopstah13]

I personally think fedora is too unstable for a server choice, I think you're better off with Centos5, Debian stable, or Ubuntu 8.04 Server

[L4Linux]

I personally think fedora is too unstable for a server choice, I think you're better off with Centos5, Debian stable, or Ubuntu 8.04 Server

I 've been using Fedora 10 in my desktop PC for 3 months. I can't say it is unstable, but it is so bleeding edge that it just makes me nervous using it as a server. Servers are supposed to use the most mature and well tested software. Unless you want it for development and prefer it to be bleeding edge. I agree with coopstah13 for production servers. I 've also heard many good comments about Slackware and Gentoo, although they are both considered to be for more experienced administrators.

[coopstah13]

bleeding edge

This is what I mean by unstable.

[Bemk]

I use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server.

I haven't found any problems with it yet, accept for a power failure (which is not due to the OS). I am setting up an server at school for a project I am managing. It's a website for the exchange project with schools in Denmark I have to set up and the admins had an old server standing around doing nothing, so I could use it for the website. I use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on it. I tried some other distro's (and even Windows) but for me Ubuntu came out as the best one.