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Most favorite operating system for servers?

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  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @treesmokah said:

    @FatGrizzly said:
    Personal stuff - Debian
    projects/ work - Alma. Due to their LTS

    I mean, Debian has at least 5 years of LTS(up to 10 with Freexian and some kernel patches). I think its enough for most companies. Even at work, I always run current stable on servers - I hate "rusty" software.

    Even at work, the stallion coder likes to use the latest version, currently Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    This is even less rusty than Debian stable.
    Having newer compiler means better optimization for the recent CPU.
    Having newer kernel means better support for things like SR-IOV, AF_XDP, and io_uring.
    The stallion coder then rewrites half of his app every year, to take average of these improvements, which increases network and storage performance.

    You have an outdated system?
    It's your problem.
    You are supposed to upgrade your infrastructure and rewrite your integration every other year, to keep up with my changes.

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    tree fiddy!

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @FatGrizzly said:

    @treesmokah said:

    @FatGrizzly said:
    Personal stuff - Debian
    projects/ work - Alma. Due to their LTS

    I mean, Debian has at least 5 years of LTS(up to 10 with Freexian and some kernel patches). I think its enough for most companies. Even at work, I always run current stable on servers - I hate "rusty" software.

    When i was an intern for the first time, it was a cPanel server running Cloudlinux 7, from there they instructed me to use Alma/CentOS for stuff and it became my habit

    How many times were you an intern?

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:
    I'm kind of honestly surprised I don't see more Windows Server.
    Granted I know a lot of people here probably don't cater to a lot of Windows environments.

    This is LOWEND.

  • itsnotvitsnotv Member

    I have been running mostly debian for a decade. But I am bored of debian. I am considering moving to NixOS. A rolling release in prod with sounds more exciting.

    Any Nix or Arch server users here?

  • dragonfskydragonfsky Member

    Arch lol

  • explicitexplicit Member

    i've moved away from debian for the last 5 years. and i'm 100% on ubuntu.

    can anyone convince me to shift back to debian?

  • FatGrizzlyFatGrizzly Member, Host Rep

    @TimboJones said:

    @FatGrizzly said:

    @treesmokah said:

    @FatGrizzly said:
    Personal stuff - Debian
    projects/ work - Alma. Due to their LTS

    I mean, Debian has at least 5 years of LTS(up to 10 with Freexian and some kernel patches). I think its enough for most companies. Even at work, I always run current stable on servers - I hate "rusty" software.

    When i was an intern for the first time, it was a cPanel server running Cloudlinux 7, from there they instructed me to use Alma/CentOS for stuff and it became my habit

    How many times were you an intern?

    3 times, 2x cPanel based, 1x DA

  • webdevwebdev Member

    Debian for server and desktop to keep it simple.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @FatGrizzly said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @FatGrizzly said:

    @treesmokah said:

    @FatGrizzly said:
    Personal stuff - Debian
    projects/ work - Alma. Due to their LTS

    I mean, Debian has at least 5 years of LTS(up to 10 with Freexian and some kernel patches). I think its enough for most companies. Even at work, I always run current stable on servers - I hate "rusty" software.

    When i was an intern for the first time, it was a cPanel server running Cloudlinux 7, from there they instructed me to use Alma/CentOS for stuff and it became my habit

    How many times were you an intern?

    3 times, 2x cPanel based, 1x DA

    On-site?

  • jugganutsjugganuts Member
    edited January 2023

    at the end of the day the answer is going to be it depends.

    it depends what hardware I'm installing on and if a particularity operating system has pros with it over another

    it depends what's best for what I'm trying to do.

    Best is always relative. is it best for my time? is it the best choice for the program or task?

    generally I find Debian goes on most things followed by Alma for stability and LTS type environments, windows only when needed.

    been doing Arch Linux as I've been testing Linux desktop environment for production workflows on my main workstation, very impressed with valves contributions to the Linux desktop lately.

  • FatGrizzlyFatGrizzly Member, Host Rep

    @TimboJones said:

    @FatGrizzly said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @FatGrizzly said:

    @treesmokah said:

    @FatGrizzly said:
    Personal stuff - Debian
    projects/ work - Alma. Due to their LTS

    I mean, Debian has at least 5 years of LTS(up to 10 with Freexian and some kernel patches). I think its enough for most companies. Even at work, I always run current stable on servers - I hate "rusty" software.

    When i was an intern for the first time, it was a cPanel server running Cloudlinux 7, from there they instructed me to use Alma/CentOS for stuff and it became my habit

    How many times were you an intern?

    3 times, 2x cPanel based, 1x DA

    On-site?

    Nope, Remote.

  • readycheapcloudreadycheapcloud Member

    We love for CentOs 7.... <3

  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    Seems like Debian/Ubuntu is pretty much the given.

  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    @treesmokah said:
    I prefer L4N made by GNAA with help of Goatse Security.
    Top notch for server hosting needs.

    ROFL. gnaa and goatse, that's some old school shit.

    Thanked by 1treesmokah
  • H84GaborH84Gabor Member

    windows ftw

  • comXyzcomXyz Member

    no OS, so all servers are secure. They're all idling anyway

  • Aboba12345Aboba12345 Member

    In my opinion Debian is much easier to use than others.

  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    @Aboba12345 said:
    In my opinion Debian is much easier to use than others.

    What makes it easy for you to use?

  • alt_alt_ Member

    Used to use CentOS a lot, but now stick with Debian since the stream version came out.

  • eva2000eva2000 Veteran

    CentOS will always have a place in my heart but been playing with Alma Linux and Rocky Linux more for Centmin Mod testing and liking it a lot ^_^

    nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.23.3 (171222-023607-almalinux8-redhat-kvm-d965f3f-br-6e975bc)
built by gcc 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9) (GCC) 
built with OpenSSL 1.1.1s  1 Nov 2022
  • mwtmwt Member

    I'm glad to see Debian > Ubuntu

    Thanked by 1kait
  • SauronSauron Member

    IBM AS/400 seems to be missing in the poll.
    AS/400

    Thanked by 1raindog308
  • DediRockDediRock Member, Patron Provider

    Ubuntu or Debian

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @eva2000 said: CentOS will always have a place in my heart

    CentOS will always have a place in my lower GI tract.

    @ElonBezos said: Ubuntu in general,

    Ubuntu in general, but Debian in specific. Thx.

  • AuroraZeroAuroraZero Member

    @emperor said:

    @default said: It's therefore irrelevant (in my case).

    This one also :) Dont have Slackware

    Damn Skippy this is all irrelevant now

    Thanked by 1emperor
  • eva2000eva2000 Veteran

    @raindog308 said: CentOS will always have a place in my lower GI tract.

    Wow that kind of love is so deep ^_^

  • Murata_Chink_BestMurata_Chink_Best Member

    CentOS is dead, long live Debian

  • wii747wii747 Member

    Debian as its rock solid

  • ardaarda Member

    Debian. Rock solid, also very lightweight.

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