skyhighmac Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I will be setting up a server in the next week or so and I wanted to know what this community thought was the best server distro. I will end up installing a gui on the server for easier administration (the server is more/less for a client) The server is going to end up having the AMP stack, along with RoR, and some other things,as well as snort and tripwire for security. I have been leaning to Ubuntu or Fedora. What do you guys think? thanks~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Adams Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Wikimedia standardised on Ubuntu Sounds like Ubuntu is a good server distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 CentOS or Debian. CentOS is a clone of RHEL. RHEL and SLES are the best server distros without any doubt. They are not free, alas. However you can download a "trial" version of SLES for free. The only limitation is that, once the trial expires, you can no longer download updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprodigy Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 debian. screw RHEL or SLES et cetera. sorry alessandro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 debian.screw RHEL or SLES et cetera. sorry alessandro Debian is a great do-it-yourself distro, that is why I advised it. But try to convince large companies to use it on their servers instead of RHEL or SLES. Also because with RHEL or SLES you get official support. Also there are users here who swear that SLES is by far the easiest to configure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 Yeah. I am picking up the computer tomorrow and going to install Debian. Should I go full dvd or network install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Yeah. I am picking up the computer tomorrow and going to install Debian. Should I go full dvd or network install? I don't believe you need a full DVD if you want to install a server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted October 31, 2008 Author Share Posted October 31, 2008 Well yeah. I meant more of ease of installation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 For servers, I always recommend ClarkConnect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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