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XFH-Jay
January 18th, 2008, 21:43
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
January 18th, 2008, 21:52
I seem to favour CentOS 4. Always does what i need it to, never had any problems with it.
Cam.
January 19th, 2008, 20:16
CentOS 4 or 5 is good :)
Patrick
January 19th, 2008, 20:38
Always used CentOS 4 or 5; they're great. Haven't had any major problems.
Skylar
January 19th, 2008, 21:05
I've gone with CentOS 4 and 5, but hear FedoraCore is a decent one too.
gate2vn
January 20th, 2008, 02:08
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
January 20th, 2008, 06:24
I've tried CentOS and Debian; I much prefer CentOS.
~ServerPoint~
January 21st, 2008, 03:08
CentOS 4 & 5 - my suggestion
Decker
January 21st, 2008, 13:07
CentOS 4.5 my choice, solid and reliable :)
fcolor
January 29th, 2008, 07:18
We use Fedora Core and in the past year we started with centOS. Both are good and work fine.
heymrdj
January 29th, 2008, 23:45
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
January 31st, 2008, 18:51
Didn't see it mentioned but FreeBSD :)
Decker
February 1st, 2008, 00:49
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
February 1st, 2008, 06:19
Cent os 4 & 5 is also my choice, pretty good os and easy to navigate and customise.
scribby
February 1st, 2008, 19:41
I've always used CentOS 4 & 5 and never had any problems.
serverorigin
February 2nd, 2008, 05:51
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
February 2nd, 2008, 06:32
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.