Can't decide - which Linux distro?

[XFH-Jay]

I'm looking at some servers here and they offer Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, CentOS 4 & 5, OpenSuse, :confused4

Which one should I go with? I'd suppose they're all pretty much the same when it comes to hosting?

 

[Stan]

I seem to favour CentOS 4. Always does what i need it to, never had any problems with it.

 

[Cam.]

CentOS 4 or 5 is good

 

[Patrick]

Always used CentOS 4 or 5; they're great. Haven't had any major problems.

 

[Skylar]

I've gone with CentOS 4 and 5, but hear FedoraCore is a decent one too.

 

[gate2vn]

We will have 2 CentOS 5 online in next week. The current servers are running CentOS 4.x without any trouble. My advice: choose the one you're familiar with

 

[themoose]

I've tried CentOS and Debian; I much prefer CentOS.

 

[~ServerPoint~]

CentOS 4 & 5 - my suggestion

 

[Decker]

CentOS 4.5 my choice, solid and reliable

 

[hostcolor]

We use Fedora Core and in the past year we started with centOS. Both are good and work fine.

 

[heymrdj]

CentOS5 is good when you're gonna run a panel like cpanel that doesn't work on Debian bases. Other than that, I use Debian 4.0 (Etch) all the way. I don't really like Ubuntu server as much..it's more bloated than pure Debian. Get Gentoo if you need something completely optimized and customized all the way (read that as needing a masters in linux terminology). I view Fedora as the Desktop version of CentOS as Ubuntu is the desktop version of Debian, so I would really use CentOS over Fedora. You can use Red Hat for ultra robustness..but they'll probably charge you extras. I'd use CentOS or Debian. (Yes I know that was long, sorry about all that).

 

[serverorigin]

Didn't see it mentioned but FreeBSD

 

[Decker]

Didn't see it mentioned but FreeBSD

There's a reason - great OS, bugger to setup and admin if you don't know it though

 

[Jordan Mclay]

Cent os 4 & 5 is also my choice, pretty good os and easy to navigate and customise.

 

[scribby]

I've always used CentOS 4 & 5 and never had any problems.

 

[serverorigin]

There's a reason - great OS, bugger to setup and admin if you don't know it though

Guess you're right but rock solid!

 

[Decker]

Certainly is, everytime I thought I was going to get some time to set one up to play with something else interupted, ah well one of these days.