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What OS do I choose when provisioning VPS?
sidewinder
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in General
As a CentOS refugee is Rocky the preferred choice?
Would be nice to install a template and have "yum upgrade" not timeout in 2 years. Jesus did CentOS suck.
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I still use centos 7
centos 7, Debian 10
Debian, without a shadow of any doubt. Hands down.
CentOS 7 still a good OS today
Also Debian 9 or Debian 10 .-.
Debian. It's a nice combination of stability and a reasonable update cycle.
Rocky looks promising but still requires time to prove. For now, go with debian.
debain10 or openSUSE
Too early to tell, but Alma was the first out of the gate and has bigger backing (as it's put out by CloudLinux). If I wanted to use a RHEL-derived distro, I'd use Alma.
But of course, I don't. Debian thx.
Debian is the only usable option.
Windows96
Since majority is Debian, may i ask whether anyone go with Debian Testing or just Stable?
Thanks - obv I was looking for the CentOS go-to replacement.
My old debian installs still fail apt-get just like my older Centos installs fail yum-update
Debian
gentoo OR debian10
Kali Linux. Sir, I am from India. Greetings.
Stable for servers, testing for desktop pcs.
Debian 10, moved from Ubuntu after they released netplan. I hate netplan.
Unpopular choice it seems, but I chose Ubuntu Server
CentOS -> Debian -> Ubuntu Server
In CentOS 7 I needed to recompile many things, because it used GCC 4.8.5 which is slower than newer versions on Zen2-based CPUs. On Debian everything is old AF, good for stability I suppose, but man... good thing Debian 11 will come soon. I currently use Ubuntu, everything works OOB and it combines updates with stability. Might switch back to Debian tho, 11 release is just 2 days away.
Debian 10
I'm newbie here, but I use Ubuntu for many years in the desktop. So I hava question why you guys choose Debian as the server?
Alma Linux or openSUSE
Equally between Debian 10 and Ubuntu LTS (which of course is based on Debian)
CentOS 7
centos 7 is nice
If you want more choice in web control panel, Debian and Ubuntu is the way to go.
I was using Centos 7, new VPS are running Rocky Linux 8.4
isn't ubuntu server better than debian?
I've found them to be about the same, but as of late, I have been gravitating more towards ubuntu server.
I personally use Debian, but CentOS is on most of my production boxes. I've been testing AlmaLinux, and I'm still evaluating it as a replacement for CentOS.