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Which Linux flavor is best for servers?
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Does anyone have any recommendations on which linux flavor is the best for servers? There are alot of distros out there so curious to here from people using any of them.

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ASKED: May 26 2009  6:07 PM GMT
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I think it depends on the nature of the application.

If it's for casual personal use, just about any of the distros would do. I'd use the latest stable release. I happen to like Fedora.

If it's for a more important personal use or a non-critical business use, I'd use Centos. It's a Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative, essentially RHEL without support.

If it's a mission-critical business application, I'd buy a RHEL 5.3 license to get the ongoing technical support.

Some folks might recommend SUSE/SLES instead of RHEL and I think that would be a valid option, too.
Last Answered: May 27 2009  6:31 PM GMT by Sds9985   365 pts.
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Troy Tate   0 pts.  |   May 27 2009  8:16PM GMT

As mentioned, any distro with support would be best for a business server. Check out some of the offerings by going to <a href="http://distrowatch.com" title="http://distrowatch. " target="_blank">distrowatch.com</a>. There’s a lot to keep up with but the “old” standards like RedHat, Suse, and Debian are all great offerings. I like Ubuntu for desktop and light server use.

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Djeepp   340 pts.  |   Jul 15 2009  4:30PM GMT

For any kind of commercial or mission critical use, best to use something with a support contract. Redhat and SUSE were both mentioned. It also depends on what you and your sysadmins are most familiar with. There is a pretty heavy learning curve for the different classifications of Linux (Redhat vs. Debian for example).

 
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