remixedcat Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 RHEL or CentOS.... they are the most used in the hosting industry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phixion Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I use Debian Squeeze on both of my servers, It's more streamlined than Ubuntu Server, yet you still get a great package manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 if there was a good distro that had good in built integration for samba or so it easy to set it up with folder and stuff it will just work or if uses some way to get windows support that work as well but no freenas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Gento, Arch, maybe Debian or FreeBSD - definitely not Ubuntu Server (which shines only as a desktop distribution). Care to explain? Been running an Ubuntu server since the 8.04 days and it's handled pretty much anything I've needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username_taken Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 i am no expert but i have heard debian, SUSE and freebsd are really good for servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srbeen Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 nas4free is the 'updated' version of FreeNAS based off FreeBSD 7 (now 9). Had something like 182 days of uptime last I checked. FreeNAS seems to have went in a terrible direction and FreeNAS 7 cant be upgraded to work with 8/9 easily, and its much more buggy from reading the forums. If you want a super low-power 1-5 user capped at 100Mbit and USB drives for serving SD/torrenting/running some scripts I suggest a raspberry pi with raspbian. don't get much cheaper than that, also don't get much slower! the network throughput is terrible. likely better to buy a Wifi-N USB adapter and a usb hub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_s Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 considering the past, perhaps for you I would consider Centos. I use, Centos Red Hat FreeBSD Gentoo (rare) In server environments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostWalker Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Either of the following would be good to use imo. 1) FreeBSD 2) Debian 3) SuSE I never really messed around with BSD but from user-feedback and articles that I've been reading, it's obvious that BSD is the most secure thing to run on a server. Debian is great cause of Apt. It has packages in the stable and testing mirrors that are 99.9% sure to work and you'll have strictly what you need. You install the base system and install anything afterwards with apt-get. SuSE, well, it has a pretty installation that people enjoy looking at and it works. It's easy to setup and YaST isn't bad at all. Just make sure that the rpm's that you will be using will install on SuSE (sometimes they can be distro-specific if not mistaken). But as far as linux distributions go, you could pretty much use almost anything as long as the package managment tool that it provides is reliable (don't need one but it sure makes life easy for admins). Apt and Portage are the two systems that I'd say are reliable as far as linux goes. aren't the commands etc different in FreeBSD? or the packaging commands... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 aren't the commands etc different in FreeBSD? or the packaging commands... You do realise that post was made nearly 8 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Veteran Posted September 3, 2013 Veteran Share Posted September 3, 2013 Necro'd Thread Closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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