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Alright! Pownce Poll! Name your favorite (web server) flavor of linux! Ready?! GO!

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1 year, 1 month ago by Bryan V.

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  • Ben G. Ben G. replied Jul 17, 2007
    Ubuntu
  • Brian D. Brian D. replied Jul 17, 2007
    CentOS
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    Anton P. Anton P. replied Jul 17, 2007
    Ben: Distros like Ubuntu (and Fedora, which I use) are targeted more at the Desktop market, considering how the packages are updated and installed, with enough binary data to be compatible for thousands of configurations, instead of -just- yours.

    Bryan: Consider something like Gentoo[1] or Slackware[2] for Server needs, since the overhead is lightweight and the packages are optimized for your exact machine specs (you'll have to do a lot of compiling for that) - the speed improvement is worth investigating.

    [1] - http://www.gentoo.org/
    [2] - http://www.slackware.com/
  • Anton P. Anton P. replied Jul 17, 2007
    Or, better yet - consider trying FreeBSD instead of Linux.
  • Olly H. Olly H. replied Jul 17, 2007
    Anton - they do a server edition of Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/... - no idea if it's any good though :)
  • David M. David M. replied Jul 17, 2007
    Ubuntu Breezy seems pretty solid from everything I've ran across.
  • Matthew A. Matthew A. replied Jul 17, 2007
    Last time I did a comparison (which was over two years ago) I was keen on SuSe.
  • David S. David S. replied Jul 17, 2007
    I've been using Gentoo for quite a while. I've tried others, but I always find my way back to Gentoo.
  • Steven C. Steven C. replied Jul 17, 2007
    Gentoo or Debian.
  • Steve S. Steve S. replied Jul 18, 2007
    Gentoo isn't appropriate for server use—it's way too easy to break things like php with a simple emerge. You don't want bleeding-edge packages, you want packages that have been thoroughly tested /together/. You're best off sticking with RHEL/CentOS or vanilla Debian if you insist on Linux, and include FreeBSD or OpenSolaris if you aren't insisting on Linux.
  • Todd A. Todd A. replied Jul 18, 2007
    CentOS
  • Bryan V. Bryan V. replied Jul 20, 2007
    Thanks everybody for your opinions. :D

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