Your favorite linux server distro

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  • I don't really like Linux, I like FreeBSD.

  • @FreeBSD said:
    I don't really like Linux, I like FreeBSD.

    The best is definitely the upcoming LESbian

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  • @poisson said:

    @FreeBSD said:
    I don't really like Linux, I like FreeBSD.

    The best is definitely the upcoming LESbian

    I guess you want to have LESbian on a whole rack.

  • FreeBSD said: I guess you want to have LESbian on a whole floor.

    Yes!
    But the floor should have EtherChannel waterchannel

  • @FreeBSD said:

    @poisson said:

    @FreeBSD said:
    I don't really like Linux, I like FreeBSD.

    The best is definitely the upcoming LESbian

    I guess you want to have LESbian on a whole rack.

    One rack? Give me a DC

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  • @tgl said:
    alpine linux

    @mrtilde said:
    currently I'm beginning to test Alpine.

    Alpine, yes! How did I miss it in the poll?

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  • @terrorgen dunno, probably you did not see the forest from the trees :)

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    @poisson said:
    You don't need to list arch. Their users will tell you they use arch without you asking them.

    LOL. And honestly, it'd be stupid as hell to run arch on a server.

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  • @SpryServers_Tab said:

    @poisson said:
    You don't need to list arch. Their users will tell you they use arch without you asking them.

    LOL. And honestly, it'd be stupid as hell to run arch on a server.

    Some providers provides them as an option, so I wonder

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    @terrorgen said:

    @SpryServers_Tab said:

    @poisson said:
    You don't need to list arch. Their users will tell you they use arch without you asking them.

    LOL. And honestly, it'd be stupid as hell to run arch on a server.

    Some providers provides them as an option, so I wonder

    Well honestly, I'll provide whatever a client wants, and I have had requests for Arch. I provide an ISO if they want to install it, but I sure as hell don't recommend it. Too many updates break stuff. I mean I use it on my laptop, because I love bleeding-edge stuff - but i'd never use it on a server.

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  • Debian and Ubuntu =)

  • Have always used Fedora since 2010s.

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  • Is there a special reason for you using Fedora?
    Something that makes is special for you? Or is it "just" what you are used too?

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  • @SpryServers_Tab said:

    @terrorgen said:

    @SpryServers_Tab said:

    @poisson said:
    You don't need to list arch. Their users will tell you they use arch without you asking them.

    LOL. And honestly, it'd be stupid as hell to run arch on a server.

    Some providers provides them as an option, so I wonder

    Well honestly, I'll provide whatever a client wants, and I have had requests for Arch. I provide an ISO if they want to install it, but I sure as hell don't recommend it. Too many updates break stuff. I mean I use it on my laptop, because I love bleeding-edge stuff - but i'd never use it on a server.

    I bought into the hype back in 2014 or so and my arch install breaks every day or two after I run pacman -Syu.
    Back to Debian I guess.

    I run elementaryOS as my desktop. On VPSes, it's always debian.

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    Debian-fork for general production; Alpine for specific single tasks.

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  • Ubuntu's LTS is what made the switch to 'Linux as daily-driver', possible for me (2006)
    I run Ubuntu LTS on most servers as well : Access to lots of readymade PPAs , 5 years of security patches, recent enough software versions for almost any server runtimes.

    2 or 3 storage-only servers run a minimal Debian Stable + ufw.

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    From those on the list, Debian. I mainly use it for personal servers. Otherwise, CentOS where needed.

    For desktop, I usually choose Linux Mint. Last few months, I have been eye-ing Deepin, it's interface looks nice.

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  • deankdeank OG
    edited November 2019

    @Amitz said:
    Is there a special reason for you using Fedora?
    Something that makes is special for you? Or is it "just" what you are used too?

    It was the very first unix distro I started to use.
    It works, so why change?

    Besides, I did like the name and the fact that it is a fork of Red Hat unix which I used few times before Fedora.

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  • I run variously Debian, Devuan, Slackware, and Ubuntu MATE.

    I've become fond of Devuan, and I'm hoping that the next stable release won't take many more months.

    I may decide to leave Slackware in the near future.

    I like Ubuntu MATE because it's probably the nicest instance of MATE, which is the desktop that I prefer.

    And Debian, of course.

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  • @WSS said:
    Debian-fork for general production; Alpine for specific single tasks.

    No more Void?

    "A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)

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    edited November 2019

    @angstrom said:

    @WSS said:
    Debian-fork for general production; Alpine for specific single tasks.

    No more Void?

    I run Void as a desktop; Devuan for my KVM Hypervisor, and Alpine for NS/Backup MX; OpenBSD on my low-RAM play/proxy/IRC box. I used to be a big FreeBSD guy back in the day, but I agree that 4.x went in the wrong direction. DragonFlyBSD doesn't fit my needs, or I'd probably play with it more.

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  • @WSS said: Devuan for my KVM Hypervisor

    So we overlap with Devuan. I've been running it on a VPS.

    "A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)

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    @angstrom said:

    @WSS said: Devuan for my KVM Hypervisor

    So we overlap with Devuan. I've been running it on a VPS.

    Yep. It's Debian without the stupid, but it does take awhile to catch up. Works great as a drop-in replacement for KVM and Debian-style Apache services. If I ever decide to dump Apache, I'd probably set that up under an Alpine KVM and rebuild; I like it's low RAM use, but having Debian (Devuan) as my hypervisor just makes it a lot easier to care and feed for. I tried KVM services under Alpine, Void, and CentOS, but I hated it, despite most KVMs I deal with are CentOS based.

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  • @WSS said:
    I run Void as a desktop; Devuan for my KVM Hypervisor, and Alpine for NS/Backup MX; OpenBSD on my low-RAM play/proxy/IRC box. I used to be a big FreeBSD guy back in the day, but I agree that 4.x went in the wrong direction. DragonFlyBSD doesn't fit my needs, or I'd probably play with it more.

    Never heard of Void, I guess I'm not paying too much attention ... :p
    But how's the OpenBSD httpd?

    Haven't tested Devuan, must be quite some work to keep developing debian stuff without all the systemd deps ...

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    edited November 2019

    @flips said:

    @WSS said:
    I run Void as a desktop; Devuan for my KVM Hypervisor, and Alpine for NS/Backup MX; OpenBSD on my low-RAM play/proxy/IRC box. I used to be a big FreeBSD guy back in the day, but I agree that 4.x went in the wrong direction. DragonFlyBSD doesn't fit my needs, or I'd probably play with it more.

    Never heard of Void, I guess I'm not paying too much attention ... :p
    But how's the OpenBSD httpd?

    Haven't tested Devuan, must be quite some work to keep developing debian stuff without all the systemd deps ...

    Void is very NetBSD-like. It was created basically as a proof-of-concept of the authors' package management system (A former NetBSD developer). The installation is text-mode, and you need to remember to create /boot/efi for newer boxes as a vfat/fat32, but otherwise it's not all that different than Arch as a rolling distribution, but the init system is daemontools-inspired. /var/service and so forth- not init, and not systemd. If you've never used djb software, this will be incredibly bizarre and foreign to you.

    It makes a decent desktop with lower spec hardware/RAM - I'm rocking it on an 8 year old laptop as a daily. This is with Cinnamon, Thunderbird, Gimp, Chrome (with 8 windows), and a handful of terminal windows.

    $ free -h
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           15Gi       2.9Gi       2.6Gi       699Mi         9Gi        11Gi
    Swap:         7.3Gi        22Mi       7.2Gi
    

    I'm actually using thttpd on OpenBSD because it just serves semi-static and cgi-based stuff. 64MB total isn't enough for the box and httpd to be happy.

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  • WSS said: It makes a decent desktop with lower spec hardware/RAM

    I tried setting up i3 on void. Guess it was too much of an uphill task to do.

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    @terrorgen said:

    WSS said: It makes a decent desktop with lower spec hardware/RAM

    I tried setting up i3 on void. Guess it was too much of an uphill task to do.

    Pick a prebuilt distro for your window manager; getting all of the services started manually is a daunting task.

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  • NixOS. I love the declarative configuration. I recently switched servers and all I had to do was copy the one configuration file, run nixos-rebuild switch and I was done. It's not foolproof, but man, it has cut down my administrative work so much, it's not even funny.

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  • @WSS said:

    @terrorgen said:

    WSS said: It makes a decent desktop with lower spec hardware/RAM

    I tried setting up i3 on void. Guess it was too much of an uphill task to do.

    Pick a prebuilt distro for your window manager; getting all of the services started manually is a daunting task.

    Yet I chose i3, which is not prebuilt, lol

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