Linux Servers: Which Distro should you use?!

[@logyross6883]

wow I literally searched "which distro should I choose for a linux server?" yesterday. Amazing timing Jay :)

[@randyriegel8553]

I mainly use Debian Stable for my customers. As far as a few webservers that I run I use Gentoo. Gentoo is lightweight (no bloat) and can be configured exactly how you want it. It's a pain to setup but fun at the same time :)

[@cqwickedwake7651]

Never used it but yeah, its basicaly LFS but on easy mode...

[@diveshv7555]

I always like Debian for server...

[@rawaniajay]

Same here!

[@aaaqqwwqqddsw5509]

Same here but on laptop and vm.

[@MattMcCullough]

Same here. Debian is awesome both for servers and PC’s

[@cqwickedwake7651]

I only use Debian for server, Centos aka RHEL is so inconvenient, it always require 3-4 steps extra for the same results as Debian.. Hail Debian!

[@Joel-c9i]

Me too, and I'm already used to apt and other commands, I couldn't use CentOS or RHEL

[@chinmaykunkikar]

Watching this in the midst of the Red Hat fiasco. Sadly such content has become unrelatable.

[@sto3359]

I've been running Ubuntu servers on my LAN and I've never had a problem. That being said my usage isn't exactly intensive.

[@joshaprior3699]

Have you tried debian, I used to use ubuntu and switched to debian it's a little lighter but you won't notice it that much tho

[@noneya9721]

I have used Ubuntu for years for just about everything but as well know that for a more uptime and stable way to keep something up I learned it depends on what your doing so CentOS actually found ways to run any server correctly and less security issues

[@jacksoncremean1664]

Ubuntu is a pretty solid server distro all around tbh but certain distros may be better suited for certain purposes eg debian for a db server

[@smith4591]

Considering the hardware support, I'll also go with the Ubuntu Server OS. Rocky Linux is promising, but it's kind of still new. Maybe few years down the road.

[@bertnijhof5413]

At home I still have a Pentium 4 server with 2 IDE and 2 SATA HDDs in total 1.21TB, so I use 32-bits FreeBSD 13 on OpenZFS. Since it is ancient (2003), it is only powered on during the backup for ~1 hour/week. In this way I can use it till the end of my time, since all HDDs have around 2 power-on years on the clock. If I need more space, I could replace the 2 x 320GB SATA HDDs with larger ones. My desktop and laptop run Ubuntu also with OpenZFS. It is fun to find work for a ~20 year old PC in a Compaq Evo Tower with a Win98SE activation code, all parts are leftovers except a new $16 power-supply .

[@amosgiture]

You hit all the critical points with this one. Oracle Linux deserves a mention due to its compatibility with RHEL and support options just like Rocky and Alma. Alpine deserves a mention too due to its small footprint and how different it is from the larger distros.

Oracle Linux is Oracle. So, no, we shouldn't even mention its existence.

[@geoffhalsey2184]

I've two Dell servers running CentOS 7 and considering switching over Rocky Linux, but Oracle Linux is another option I'm thinking about.

[@blendingsentinel4797]

@ You must know nothing about Oracle

[@yevgenzhuchij3555]

Oracle Linux is awesome

[@mdd1963]

13:55 with developer subscription, RHEL can be used in production for free with up to 16 systems/RHEL instances, including RHEL VMs...

[@unpaintedcanvas]

I've never been a fan of ubuntu, esp desktop, because of the choices canonical made, but I still find it as my default go-to for home servers since it simplifies so much of the setup process.

[@Xenotypic]

this

[@Exotic69420]

I like both of them😂

[@Xenotypic]

@@Exotic69420 debian is good too, i've set up an email server a month or two ago and haven't had to touch it since i set it up. definitely recommendable for a home server.

[@user-iq2rz3sd8b]

I use Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit for my server 👍

[@jyvben1520]

for which tasks ? dhcp, storage, dns, ad block, home automation, routing, internet firewall ... on rpi3 or rpi4, or compute module ... did you try dietpi ?

[@matthewvanwinkle7631]

⁠I enjoy Dietpi myself

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

I've been running Ubuntu servers on my home LAN and I've never had a problems with it. I use Webmin in my browser to work with it. It's after all just a basic file sharing server and nothing else. While I'm not a fan of snaps, Ubuntu server is the only Ubuntu product I use that has snaps and I guess it is ok in that respect. :-) I did try out 1 or 2 NAS software years ago while I had my NT Server but they got so complicated and hardware intense it not real. Just not a fit for a plain file server. With that said Ubuntu Server has worked Awesomely for me for years after my 8 year old NT server bit the dust. Ubuntu server is running on a old 2 core 4 gig computer that just sit there and hums away and works. Lol Thanks Jay for the video and I think the list was a good one. LLAP

[@navdahmd]

Plz do Videos on SUSE and if possible to cover for SAP Deployment senario in it. Great Videos 👍😊

[@JohnDeaux]

"Technically it's free software so you can't charge anything for it" read the effing GPL. Free as in freesoftware, not as in free of charge!

[@StMidium]

For a real life example: I am a sysadmin, and at home, I run a Proxmox hypervisor with a mix of Debian and Ubuntu VMs, and Alpine containers, plus a kubernetes cluster consisting of four Raspberry Pis (all running Ubuntu). Fedora on my laptop, and Pop_OS on my gaming desktop. At work I administer a mix of Ubuntu and CentOS VMs, VMware and Proxmox hypervisors, and bare metal Ubuntu, CentOS and Windows servers.

[@jeffherdz]

In the 15 years in I.T. Most companies ran either run Redhat or Centos. Ubuntu has never been a huge runner in the server world. One company that I worked for ran over 17,500 Centos Servers. But that is surly different since Dec 2021 has come and gone. IBM bought Redhat (I believe) for the fact that Redhat is a far better OS than AIX will ever be. And IBM was losing clientele left and right on AIX Servers and OS sales combined. IBM will be the death of Redhat (Centos). Like everything else those Bas***ds have touched and destroyed !! R.I.P. Centos.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

debian has always been superior to centos and other rpm crap distros.

[@jeffherdz]

@@ps5hasnogames55 Keep smoking whatever it is that your smoking. And stay in that fog.

[@Slavolko]

You could be right. They're seemingly wanting to paywall their source code now. We'll see how this develops.

[@Autotrope]

Your channel is way better than most other Linux content on KZbin, thanks so much for this wealth of info.

[@ronny1734]

i cant fucking get windows server setup am not compatible with windows server my mind is fucked

[@mzs114]

Debian has backports, the server software is more updated, imo. So please stop this FUD.

[@amosgiture]

Covered aspects of the age of packages in Debian and would've been nice to mention the same regarding the other distros

[@NetBandit70]

After the recent CentOS kerfuffle, I've moved to Debian (stable) exclusively.

[@isopticon]

We are still waiting on more content about OpenSuse / Suse Linux! Taking into account that Open Suse is now nearly exactly same as Suse Enterprise it's a no brainer due to all of the issues Ubuntu presents nawadays. We have been running Suse since Novell times, my first server was on Pentium 4 originally installed with SUSE 9.3 in 2005 but first desktop in 2002 running Suse 7.3. This was before Ubuntu even existed!

[@williamnessanbaum7464]

IIRC, even Linus Torvalds cracked a joke about the Debian repositories being 100,000 years old..

[@elektron2kim666]

It's new to me. Ubuntu Server was my choice for a file server to my router as I was having problems with so many laptops and scattered files on them. A bit mind blown about how great it is. I made a lot of changes without problems. I use SSH in Thunar or issue commands through login in the terminal. I also got it to work from Windows.

[@smith4591]

If you are making a just a file server (not a web server) I think you should consider use a NAS OS like TrueNAS Core instead a server OS. It's more flexible for kind of work you mention.

Soy fan de Debian, y usarla en un servidor también es genial. Pero el hecho de que las actualizaciones tarden tanto no es lo mas conveniente, si hablamos de equipos modernos. Creo que Rocky Linux o Alma Linux es la solución ya que te ofrecen lo mismo que Red Hat pero sin el alto costo.

[@fplove]

Well, currently the choice of a server distribution I think is influenced by application. Nowdays, a lot of people install on VMs and use containers, the importance of the hardware support is zero in those contexts. My main choice is Debian (at least in the last 20 years or so) because of the support of a lot of programs in my application domain (not available on RH based distros) and the opportunity of supporting personally and directly packages of my interest in Debian main archive.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

debian is the best. simple as that. red hat is garbage

[@Gottfried.Leibniz]

I personally use Debian for a web+php-fpm+mariadb+postfix+dovecot+smb + some image and video processing scripts (imagick/ffmpeg) server. It's 10 years now, only upgraded the hardware once (was not even needed but..hehe). Installed in 2011 and kept up-to-date. I see the love for Debian is widespread and I'm not surprised at all.

[@SparQz]

I always hear good things bout Debian, but then I also hear complaints about how long updates for stuff taking longer.

[@sherakhela4044]

Please provide us more info regarding SUSE. Thanks

[@urzu181]

Just for sake of mentions there's Fedora Server as well. Yeah I know it's not really recommended for production work hey like you mentioned Debian Testing, Fedora Server can also go toe to toe. In fact we're running FreeIPA on a Fedora Server in our company and so far it hasn't really given any trouble.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

fedora is garbage. imagine using an rpm distro in 2022 *and* beta testing red hat's commerical, insecure software for free (you can thank red hat for flops like systemd and polkit which have had many vulnerabilities lol).

[@ComradeRachel]

Thought it was interesting you covered SUSE but skipped Open SUSE which is their free version without enterprise support. Great video either way.

[@xeiAiex]

7 minutes about debian, ubuntu, and rhel respectively, and 20 seconds to mention SUSE exists and also leaves out openSUSE Server *eye roll*

[@esphilee]

My first attempt with Linux was SUSE, I failed. My first successful attempt with Linux was Mint. I have Mint installed in most of my Computers except a Raspberry Pi, which has Ubuntu.

[@scheimong]

RHEL (and derivatives) have the additional advantage of shipping with (and tightly integrated with) SELinux, which is in many enterprise situations mandated by policy. Admittedly nobody has ever had anything resembling a "pleasant" first run-in with SELinux, but it's not actually that bad after you read up on RedHat's (excellent, btw) documentation. And the security bonus it offers is VERY real. I personally know of several server admins who had their arses saved by SELinux after waking up to zero-day CVEs.

[@_modiX]

Canonical ruined Ubuntu. Also why not talking about Fedora Server when mentioning Red Hat?

[@ThomasMilam-b7g]

Yes it's strange that so much is said about CentOS and how it has changed, but not about the Fedora Project which is sponsored by Red Hat.

[@noname-vl6vy]

update this for 2024 2025 please thanks

[@daleholden]

What about Fedora Server

[@kenzieduckmoo]

I actually learned a bit from this. Mostly that CentOS isn’t dead at 8 like everyone said before. Also I’ve always been curious about OpenSuse and even tried to run it before, but had many issues trying to get it installed

[@ps5hasnogames55]

CentOS is dead unless you want to run an untrustworthy rolling release on your production server (newsflash: no one wants to do that). Red Hat are garbage, they killed off CentOS to force you to pay for RHEL. Thankfully most of the Linux community have their heads on right so everyone ditched Red Hat garbage distros and moved on to based and superior Debian.

[@craigwoods2355]

The best distribution for servers is the one with the best security features and hardening. There’s just no better way to choose.

[@derekgoodwine7509]

Ubuntu Server LTS! This is my choice and I based my personal server on this distro because I got your excellent book. In other words My personal internal cloud runs on Ubuntu! This is my "disto/way to go!". On the other end of the spectrum there is RedHat. RedHat is not was used to be. RedHat is almost a separate ecosystem in the IBM hands and when a huge corporation puts the hands on something most of the times it turns into greedy and awful outcome. I do NOT trust IBM while Canonical is definitely very fair! My technical support is your book Jay! Keep it up Sir! You are fantastic!

[@ps5hasnogames55]

lol what? you don't trust IBM with red hat, but you trust canonical which are also a large (and very controversial) company? you make no sense.

[@JacobP81]

My VPS runs Ubuntu with the Xfce DE, but since it's the desktop version it comes with a bunch of programs that are not needed on a server. I am going to reinstall the OS but put Ubuntu Server on it instead then install the Xfce desktop and LAMP with tasksel. I also need a good email server on it too.

[@stack35]

Ubuntu Server for my home network. I'd never run Ubuntu on my desktop or notebook but for server usage it's great. Simple and solid.

[@asgacc8789]

Never because canonical or something else?

[@kdg1955]

I too started with RedHat when it was still free. Afterwards I switched to Fedora and never felt the need to switch to another distribution. Also my cloud server is Fedora, first AWS now on your recommendation Linode. Personally, I think you should have paid more attention to Fedora Server, but this is just my opinion.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

fedora server is a joke and so is fedora in general.

[@kdg1955]

@@ps5hasnogames55 I appreciate your opinion. Even if we disagree.

[@BaDitO2]

as someone who has to manage SLES server in my job. Without wanting to write a big all of text here, it falls kind of apart when you try (or better said have to) customize it for the usage case of your customers. And the YAST aspects can also really also conflict with the internal management tools your customer has. While SLES isn't bad or something and I don't want to "hate" on it, I struggle to find a few things that it does straight up better than RHEL, ubuntu server or debian.

[@LearnLinuxTV]

I think you have to go a different direction with SLES, and without understanding more about the situation you ran into, it sounds like a perfect example of why universal apps are such a good idea. Red Hat goes a different direction with app streams, but it basically solves the same problem in a different way. If you rely on the internal packages only, you'll eventually run into problems (with any distribution). This is why I'm such a big fan of universal apps.

[@TheDillio187]

as far as Ubuntu...am I the only one that hates the NetPlan .yaml files and misses /etc/network/interfaces?

[@d00dEEE]

You couldn't possibly be referring to netplan's half-assed, half-finished support for the features in what it's supposed replace, could you? 🤬 I'm ok with the yaml, but when you have to add override.conf to all of your /etc/.../interfaces, wtf?

[@dan1el942]

Oh, no no no... NOPE. They say it has a purpose but I'm yet to know which one exactly, I mean, other than get in the middle and piss you off while trying to configure NIs in traditional manners, at least. Canonical has reinvented the wheel in such bothersome ways (considering the alternatives to their solutions) that it's amazing at this point.

[@TheDillio187]

@@d00dEEE glad I'm not the only one.

[@TheDillio187]

I've yet to see a valid purpose for doing this other than pissing everyone off. Now, instead of a simple config file change to modify an IP, you have to EXACTLY modify the .yaml file or you F the whole thing up. It's a total s@$t show.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

@@dan1el942 canonical has severe "not invented here" syndrome.

[@weltsiebenhundert]

#Timestamps FAIL First Timestamp has to be 00:00 not 00:00:00. After that XX:XX (your videos is minutes: seconds NOT 21 hours long but 21 minute.) Just delete the last ":XX"

[@rahuldsouza1985]

What about Slackware?

[@qlum]

Personally there are just two distro's I use on servers. Debian stable for environments with little change under the hood. Arch for development / when having regular kernel upgrades are not a big deal Arch. Arch being well documented and not being very opinionated really does have it's place on servers. As for why Debian, actually being able to upgrade to new Debian stable versions really does help. Ubuntu in that regard is just unreliable.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

Arch is owned by systemd and SJWs. Wtf you on about "not opinionated" lmaooo

[@doublezerocool7624]

My personal server choice is Slackware Linux. An oldest maintain, highly stable and secure linux distribution.

[@rudysal1429]

How do you migrate over a server from one distro to another. Let's say I have ubuntu and have new hardware and want to install rocky or something and migrate all the configurations or whatever

[@davebrowning9290]

I also started with Red Hat before they split it into Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Well I played around with a few distros before settling on RedHat. I switched to using Ubuntu for servers after that.

[@AviCus-d5k]

Dude, I started with Red hat 5.1 back in 98 and learned about Ubuntu at v9

[@Khemystt]

I have the SAME exact Link Sticker in the EXACT same spot lol

[@DarthDweeb]

I bought a book called Master Ubuntu Server, so I feel I have no options. It's gotta be ubuntu server.

[@gadooze]

My old cheap laptop-I turned it into a server and installed OMV, a debian distro, on it.

[@rcdenis1]

How about Slackware as a server?

[@zaharib]

openSUSE Leap has been working great for me 🥰. It has a very nice installer. It has great documentation. And if needed your Leap installation can be upgraded to a supported instance. Very clear and accessible pricing with a very understandable description of what you get. Alma Linux has been working out great too…

[@kasep_pisan]

Slackware 15.0

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

It might sound like an odd choice, but I have found that POP OS work well on Treadrippers and by extension Epyc servers.

[@linuxpenguins3214]

Interesting, I'll check it

[@RonVichar]

Is it safe / stable to go with an arch based server distro? Not a fan of Ubuntu Server anymore so maybe debian is my new home.

[@lottie4588]

Arch runs their servers on arch. It's possible, but I imo there aren't really any benefits and it carries a lot of risk. I love arch and have been using it exclusively on my desktops and laptops for years. I like having up to date software and the convenience of the AUR and how easy it is to create PKGBUILDs when i need to. For the server deployments I manage I use Debian Stable, because it's stable. When my own computer breaks it inconveniences me for an hour while i fix it. If a server breaks it incoveniences everybody who relies on it.

[@aaron6841]

Why wasn't temple os server on the list!? Only joking😅😂

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

This was a great walk through... Thanks!

[@mdd1963]

07:45 it's pronounced, "PLEH-thir-uh"...(vice, pleh-THOR-uh) :) (Now, on to solving election integrity!) And,..... great video!!!!!!!!!

[@thebahrimedia]

Question : what does "entreprise" os mean? What kind of extra features does it offer? Or is it just marketing?

[@ps5hasnogames55]

99% is just marketing, it's basically a company saying "we'll support this for 10 years". (and then CentOS Linux, which stands for Community ENTERPRISE OS got discontinued way before its projected end of life thanks to IBM buying Red hat and wanting everyone to pay for RHEL lol)

[@TheSuperBoyProject]

Mine came with a free gram of cocaine

[@thebahrimedia]

Looks like I am up to something since no one seems to be able to respond

[@Andy-ee9ft]

Great work, Jay ! Keep it up! How about Intel's Clear Linux ?

[@TheMadMagician87]

Clear linux is great in many ways beyond just performance (which is what it get headlines for), and I would highlight it's stateless nature as one of it's best attributes for a server (it also enables a bunch of ancilliary bonuses like incremental binary updating etc). It's quick with Kernel updates too. Massive practical downsides: * Driver support (i'm basically being forced to abandon it as KVM host OS, as I can't get it to support the MLNX_OFED drivers needed to tune the InfiniBand NIC's, the kernel has inbox drivers that work, but the supporting Mellanox software/driver package cannot be built, because of......) * Bundles......not packages. In principle this doesn't sound too bad, as a bundle is just a heap of packages. It does your head in though, when as in my MLNX_OFED case, I was willing to adapt their install script for a different distro and resolve all the package dependencies....except you then can't get the individual packages, and trying to find which bundle (or if they are in a bundle) is a nightmare. It's alright for a few packages, but try doing it for 10's or 100's of package dependencies.... I still think it represents the best, most forward thinking Linux server distro in a long time.....but it's hard to live with, and sadly I think that will be forcing me away from it :(

[@norseironworks]

I used to run several different distroes like knoppix, clarkconnect and netmax in adition to red hat. But these are gone now ( except red hat that is gone for the common man )

[@ps5hasnogames55]

fedora is red hat for the common man. not that you should use it since you're really just being red hat's guinea pigs and doing their work for them for free.

[@TheDillio187]

I used to love Knoppix.

[@ictglobal7175]

Hi, this is kaushik from Bangladesh, I want to know like windows server have any other operating OS LINUX or ubuntu/kali use like normal os & server os also. please explain

[@seva4241]

I've had nothing but trouble with ubuntu server. Wifi doesn't work, finally fix that and then realize my internet speed is running at maybe 1/10th of what it should be. it was just one thing after another.

[@dougtilaran3496]

Debian. Any other questions ? OTOH If you're cluess bust out Mr Visa and go Redhat Enterprise and bug them all day long

[@usmclashbrook8743]

I am self teaching myself through videos like yours and other sources. I need a free version to set up a home lab. With recent changes it seems like Debian stable and Ubuntu server are only ones I should be looking at? Debian 12 just released but Ubuntu is the popular one. Other than release cycle and support. What’s the difference

[@whothefoxcares]

*FreeBSD is a very secure* distro to run on servers.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

freeBSD isn't linux, and the BSDs are irrelevant and archaic in 2022. no one uses them except corporations who only like BSD because the licence lets them steal free software without giving back to the community.

[@arshadcf]

I am administering HPC Cluster with CentOS. As CentOS policy has changed, what do you suggest, because I have started to face package installation incompatibility.

[@Digital0.0]

thanks Had to watch this twice i switch distros like crazy I read a comment someone saying "I use ARch and CRUX for my server and that's all I need" couldn't find a lot on the topic of crux for server side other then its small footprint, btw what is that cool song at the end weird, I like it though.

[@smith4591]

So basically if you are a company and have money. Go with RHEL. Every others go with Ubuntu Server.

[@nathanruben3372]

Can'k we pull specific packages from debian tasting as backports or something like that...

[@yozs]

When I added the GMS it softed completely different than yours. Yours softed more like a real app, wNice tutorialle mine softed very

[@skug978]

Just recently I booted up a computer at home which I hadn't powered up for some time. It was running old release Debian 9 stretch. I made backups of the content of the system, just in case I ran into issues, and I began running a dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade went well and now it's running Debian 10 (buster). I decided to do it again, and dist-upgrade to the latest stable Debian 11 (bullseye). During the upgrade, I managed to kick a power-plug or some such mistake and the computer was powered down while upgrading. Ick, nasty! Turning it back on, I started up the dist-upgrade again and it recovered, and completed, and now the computer is running latest stable version Debian 11. This is something else that Debian does well (compared to some other distros) - It is very good at handling the upgrade from an older distribution to next one in the chain.

[@nixeverything]

Talk mire about fedora. And also some of the default security per distro regarding selinux/AppArmor etc.

[@kpwlek]

as a server for me personally debian only. Simple stable very reliable . At work Im forced to use centos and I really do not like it... Years back I have used suse and to be frank I hated it with passion. yes yast is cool but apart of that suse had soooo many bugs and sec holes it was beyond the rational understanding of OS... I really did not use it since last 10-12 years...

[@jaromanda]

regarding old packages in Debian stable ... there is backports - e.g. bullseye-backports - lots of very much up to date packages

[@marcusaureliusss]

What is the keyboard shortcut to open terminal in RH / Alma /Rocky Linux??

[@linuxpenguins3214]

From an SAN point of view, there seems to be more software available for RPM. I have servers running both Alma & Rock ( don't put all your eggs in one basket), I'm not sure if why but Alma seems to run better on older on hardware.

[@Mythologos]

I'm using Linux Mint as a Lab to learn all this. I still haven't decided on a permanent OS.

[@SKYMEMiC]

I wanted to install CentOS on my home PC to refresh my knowledge until I found out that CentOS isn't what it used to be. So I had to choose between Alma and Rocky and Rocky won because the founder of CentOS brought it to life. Alma also seems to have more of a commercial background.

[@mickfreeley6054]

I'm migrating my simple RAID5/6 home file server from Ubuntu 20.04 to Debian 11, mostly because Ubuntu went 'full cloud' on 20.04. They stopped updating the great mini.iso for custom, lean installs. They force snap packages on you relentlessly. Worst of all, they munged the DE metapackages that let me UNinstall the login manager (say lightdm for xfce4) without massive breakage. I want to install a few GUI packages which, for me, are more time efficient than cmdline utils and then login via ssh -X to use them. If mdadm and openssh are fully functional and stable, no problem. Boo hiss, Canonical!

[@martelljohnson7888]

Debian server is garbage it takes too much to run it ubuntu server is an easy installment with familiar scripts

[@lepidoptera9337]

Also... broke 100% of the time I installed it. Like basically every other distro. ;-)

[@JacobP81]

What about the command line program tasksel to show a list of programs to install? It works without a GUI.

[@PixelFerret]

Maybe this is a bit out there but, why did you not mentioned AWS Linux ( for cloud servers )?

[@mahkhi7154]

Ubuntu - Macintosh Guys Arch Linux - Mackintosh Guys, for their PlayStation (Valve) Redhat = IBM / Oracle SUSE = Microsoft / BEA SYSTEMS. (Also Slackware) Debian = Sun Microsystems Guys.

[@MV-qd3dv]

Unfortunately, Ubuntu still ships with an outdated kernel so you will still probably experience issues if you try to install that on new hardware

[@udaykitty]

it would be nice to have course on Weka io with BeeGFS just like Proxmox Crouse

[@PCMagikHomeLab]

jesus, I love You and Your movies!! Great Job!! Im waiting for more vids, i watched many Your videos and learn from You :) THANKS FOR EVERYTHING

[@syedkhurramnadeem309]

Plz anyone put lights on fedora servers i want to know if someone has it on production environment

[@joshua_lee732]

I use Gentoo because I'm a savage.

[@GrishTech]

Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS. I use ubuntu LTS just because of the packages.

[@tl1897]

I use ubuntu non LTS on my 4 local servers. I do release upgrades every few months, and hope for the best. So far, no installation crashed. But i won`t recomend that for production.

[@ezequielpartida5846]

I use mageia 9 on my servers and my desktops at home.. It works great!. They also release Mageia when it's ready around 2 years.

[@mzs114]

Debian! All the time! Ubuntu includes unnecessary daemon(s).

[@Paul-d4l]

I use ubuntu server os for my vms

[@elalemanpaisa]

My boy forgot about backports

[@FlexibleToast]

Red Hat is also a great choice for your homelab. You can get 16 free licenses with a developer account and it can you get some lucrative jobs. You also want to learn on RHEL in order to be better prepared for different Red Hat certifications. Getting an RHCSA or RHCE will definitely help you get that linux admin job you've always wanted.

[@penguinwrangler1012]

I have ran all sort of Linux servers. Pick the best tool for the job. If you are a professional you have to be able to determine the downside of each distribution and the upside and pick accordingly. Here lately though I have been moving to OpenSuSe servers more and more.

[@DS-ou7xm]

Please more of Suse