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MS-DOS 6.22
debian, most stable small footprint. most providers support it.
Debian is great choice.
Tried the SUSE many many moons ago - I think around 15 - 17 years (don’t even remember) back when it was free, different to any other Linux and for desktop was great. Personally paid $49.99 for Lindows as desktop was great and better than Windows 2000 / ME 😂
When I use linux I like Alpine, mostly though I use BSD because my major clients use it and want it-
Oh, and: when linux I avoid systemd like the plague.
Amazing! Do they support IPv6? ;-)
I use TempleOS
Even cooler than MS-DOS. OTOH support for TempleOS isn't that great.
@harrison
Why this thread? What do you hope to learn?
IPv6.22
Debian Sid.
No one uses Fedora?
I think it kind of matters.
While any Linux distro may do, you ultimately want a sane server distro that doesn't make silly breaking decisions on updates.
The GNU user land is the same, yes, for the most part, apart from how each distro compiles their applications with distro specific patches.
They are absolutely not the same in how they manage and handle dependencies and conflicts. Alpine installs packages in a completely different way. Alpine doesn't use libc6 but musl instead. Though yo didn't mention apk.
It could matter to someone for some reason you cannot see. Someone could be familiar with a certain package format which is easier for them to develop or patch even.
real idlers dont boot their vps
Yea, keep it boot looping, so you also burn CPU on every cycle.
Ubuntu all day.
Rocky/CentOS/Oracle
I used Ubuntu (10.04 - 16.04) for my entire production setup for years, here's why I went back to Debian.
Requiring YAML for network configuration files is singlehandedly one of the dumbest decisions I've ever seen made. The person who even proposed such an idea as the default networking manager should have been fired on the spot, and potentially gulag'd.
Debian installer is near perfect, yet Canonical moved Ubuntu to subiquity, which has a ton of bugs that often create issues when PXE booting, or even sometimes when booting from a USB image.
Canonical decided to remove the netboot image for 22.04 LTS from the official downloads. (Though you can grab a netboot image from Michael Doyle's repo here: https://people.canonical.com/~mwh/20220523/jammy-netboot-amd64.tar.gz)
Ubuntu for years has encountered an issue where it sometimes has issues with NIC naming. It will define NIC1 as eno1, and then upon reboot, it will rename that interface to eth1, and after another reboot, it will go back to eno1 again. (the solution since like ~2015 has been to set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0")
Honestly, it just seems like Canonical is making decisions that are not conducive to cohesive and reliable server environment. And there have been existing bugs ignored for nearly a decade now.
Debian > Ubuntu any day of the week.
Debian - personal/project/core servers.
AlmaLinux/CloudLinux - production/ client servers.
Thanks for the detailed response
I wish more hosting providers provided a bigger variety of distros. Most are just limited to Debian/Ubuntu. If there are others, it's super outdated.
FreeBSD
I will drop an OpenVZ VPS provider when the VPS contract expires in a few months. They have not bothered to update their operating system offerings in years. (There have been other issues, too.)
I am moving away from OpenVZ and switching to KVM VPSs for the future. With most KVM VPSs, you can install an interesting distro for yourself. Often you can install it on your own without any assistance from the VPS provider. See this website for one way to do it:
https://netboot.xyz
Debian, because basically every tutorial is somehow based on Debian or has special instructions for Debian. That's it, basically.
I'm really surprised that there isn't any Clear Linux following at LET given that it wins the most performance benchmark categories vs other OS's.
Ha ! Really ? I think the hosting provider will be unhappy ...