[Durham] Distro choice, servers/cloud

[Lucky Lee]

Two votes for Debian and some Fedora.

I'd also choose Debian o'er almost everything (so make that 2.5 votes) but
find that it's a little to slow for some of my production use-cases; the
famous Debian stability has hurt me once or twice (example: packaged
version of HAproxy & keepalived were a long way behind the latest and had a
bug that was a blocker; compiled from source in the end which obviously
becomes a patching nightmare).

These days I lean towards Ubuntu Server; still Debian based but moves that
little bit quicker.  LTS has been great for me.  I'm not quite sold on
netplan though.

On the RedHat/Fedora/CentOS side of the house - I haven't used them much in
production; I think this goes way back to a bad experience of dependency
hell on RedHat 6.0 (that's about twenty years ago kids ;)   Although I did
run CentOS7 on a RPi3; worked surprisingly well.

-Lee


On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:54 PM Alexis Solanas via Durham <
durham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Fedora user here since Fedora Core 1
> Desktop is i3
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2019, 20:43 Edmund Fisher via Durham, <
> durham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Debian fanboy here :)
>>
>> Debian sid with Cinnamon for my laptop, and Debian stretch for work
>> servers when I can. A lot of my work servers are running RHEL, and CentOS
>> or Fedora are in my favourites list.
>>
>> I'm Installing Debian stretch on a Pentium 4 with 256mb ram right now,
>> for a new home server! I've picked up so many free desktops over the past
>> week, and I have free electric :p
>>
>> --
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>> Edmund Fisher
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>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:38 PM Lucky Lee via Durham <
>> durham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Not that I have any interest in starting a 'holy OS war', but, what is
>>> your preferred server/cloud distro, and why?
>>>
>>> I ask, as I have my choice, but I do want to canvas opinion in case
>>> there's something I've missed ;)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -Lee
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