Hi Sup Forumsentlemens.
I would be interested in hearing your advises about a Server OS.
I really care about security, privacy, and stability. (which is imo important on a server).
Otherwise I would have chosen Gentoo or Arch.
What do you think about Hardened Ubuntu Server ? (up to date, pretty solid, but systemd, privacy?) Hardened Debian ? (Rock solid, but a bit out of date ?, systemd again?) CentOS ? (bc made by RedHat, but systemd, Redhat ?)
What would you recommend ? Other OSes are welcomed to the discussion, systemd less systems too.
What would be a good server OS?
Aiden Nguyen
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Kayden Richardson
Debian
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Andrew Green
cent os
Christian Collins
OpenBSD/FreeBSD or CentOS/Debian would be my picks.
Jaxson Gonzalez
this - FreeBSD
Austin Garcia
Ubuntu Server
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Nathaniel Harris
Could you explain why?
Ethan Williams
centos
Blake Nelson
Debian or Centos
Julian Walker
Slackware if you dont intend to shut it down in the next decade or so.
Thomas Anderson
Never really approached this distro. Is it okay for server purposes? Rock solid? Up to date? Secure?
Julian Martin
Windows Server 2016
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Austin Williams
CentOS, plenty of guides online because it is literally unbranded RHEL and it doesn't have weird meta tools that ubuntu has like a2enmod and update-grub.
Blake Myers
are you choosing an OS for a large datacenter/network or any other business usage?
if you answered "no I just want to serve my shitty anime over my shitty home network" then use whatever the fuck you want, there's seriously no difference
Joshua Cook
>up to date
no
>secure
yes
Colton Edwards
Personal use as docker / website / gitlab or VMsor anything that I would need or for testing things.
Xavier Edwards
Gentoo
Evan Thompson
Ubuntu is an excellent server os with a clear lifecycle, polished defaults and good security. My preference will always be Ubuntu and openbsd for real services.
Jeremiah Long
Debian or FreeBSD
Ayden Ross
Redhat/SUSE
Dominic Gutierrez
Go with CentOS because it has SELinux enabled by default.
Otherwise go with Ubuntu
Lucas Campbell
Your question really depends on what your planning to run, where/how you're planning to run it, and what kind of support you require.
The most common answer here seems to be either Debian or CentOS. But, really, any platform or combination of them, can be just good as another provided that you take the time to figure what you need to do to support it as a whole.
No one OS is master of all. They all have quirks, limitations, and hurdles to overcome. Some are easier than others.
The only way you'll find out is by putting your toe in the water.
Brayden Jones
I run CentOS on my server, if you need newer packages you need to compile them from source, but the in repo ones are rock solid. Updates are worry free for the most part, which is nice.
Nicholas Reed
use Devuan, debian is kill
Jonathan Gutierrez
debian
For servers, always Debian