[Durham] Distro choice, servers/cloud

[Rob Swan]

Ex Debian fan here ;)

Still use Debian, with KDE, on desktop - big fan and have invested much in it which I can't really afford to loose right now.

Maybe a few months out of touch with mainstream Linux, but I'm just not a big fan of the way the whole Linux world is emerging - it's like everyone wants to have their 'moment' and I see instability and direction changes for political (not technical) reasons, and I don't like it.  Mainy for that reason I'm warming increasingly to BSD (FreeBSD for me, but I'm open to 'Open') - am I a 'defector'?

So put me down as Free BSD, just to mix things up :P

Rob

On 01/05/2019 20:58, Lucky Lee via Durham wrote:
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<mailto: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<mailto: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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On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:38 PM Lucky Lee via Durham <durham at mailman.lug.org.uk<mailto: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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