Which Linux Disto Do you Prefer and Why
 

I am curious where most of you have migrated to as your favorite linux distro.

What do you always want on a dedicated box and why do you prefer your selection?

FreeBSD users chime in too if you prefer FreeBSD for a reason.

My goal is to find out what is the most popular.

I know no one will believe me, but I use FreeBSD.

(FreeBSD for desktop and servers.)

Desktop Ubuntu. Servers Debian.

Linux Mint Cinnamon. Clean, works super fast. Easy to install. Easy to work with.

Ubuntu Server 12.10 LTS on my boxes, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion on my desktop running 2 Virtual Machines with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop.

BSD, definitely :)

Mepis Linux (Debian) because it just works and the community help is great. Great for anyone migrating from Windows but not strictly a linux newbie version.

I got used to package management and where things are on Ubuntu from playing with the desktop version, so now that's what I use for a server. Mostly OS X at home.

So when you get web servers from a provider, and they list the options of the OS' you can order a dedicated with, what do you select typically on the standard packages?

I have about 300 servers just in and I want to pre-install them and im trying to determine what % of what I should have ready to go.

I like Knoppix since these days I just run off of a live CD when I need to.

FreeBSD 9.1 with ZFS for storage, carp for IP level redundancy, relayd for any http/https redundancy, nginx for www, pf for firewalling, pfsync to keep firewall states in sync (optional), and you can easily achieve 100% uptime.

I suffer absolutely no downtime with this setup. :thumbsup

(I've failed power supplies, hdds, ssds, and cpus and never skipped a beat)

CentOS - most hosts seem to be using it nowadays.

centos server side (its red hat enterprise - just with all the copywrited redhat crap taken out).

ubuntus not bad. I'm writing this post from xbuntu on my laptop.

oh, and dont forget about slackware :)

So you like anal sex and ?? :1orglaugh

I using mint on desktop,cent os on server.
I have in plan to learn using arch linux and lfs.Probably will go directly to lfs to not waste time.

On my 3 VPS's i run ubuntu or debian (since they don't offer FREEBSD on openVZ VPS's).
If i had the chance, i'd use FreeBSD, i like the way it works (the webserver at my office that i set up is running nonstop for over 6 years now).

All my desktops and laptops run windows, since they're all company property, and i'm not allowed to change the OS :Oh crap:. I'd probably go for debian or freebsd if i had the opportunity

I used to use this with literally any hardware and it always worked.

Arch and Debian

:thumbsup

Yep, live distros are great. I loved being able to hack my school computers with it and Etherial and nothing was logged.. :upsidedow

running ubuntu 13.04 here.

used to run fbsd on my servers.

debian these days. Still working with some centOS servers though.

CentOS 64bit. Yum

Pretty much the exact same here,
Ubuntu Server 12.10 LTS on my boxes and VPS's. OS X Lion on my Desktop. Arch Linux on my Chromebook.

I'm personally feeling Ubuntu lately. I have bailed on CentOS but our customers still ask for it alot. Debian and Ubuntu are the best in my opinion. I still love FreeBSD but it not in demand as much the past two years at least. Seems everyone is asking us for CentOS Version 5.XX whatever and avoiding CentOS 6.

I have a few full cabs of empty servers so im trying to figure out how I should pre-install them to make them easy to sell to whoever needs a dedicated.

Maybe I can find someone who wants like 20 boxes cheap and they can tell me what they want on them. I have like an extra 100 to 200 servers that im sitting on. (Bought up an out of business isp who had a ton of hardware on pallets etc.)

i was on 12.10, i upgraded my vps and dedicated from 12.10 to 13.04

good thing it didnt break or i would be in trouble ;)

What about OSX? That's basically a Linux distro..

I use Ubuntu. I like apt and Ubuntu's installer and device detection are great. Centos annoys me, I've always found rpm and yum to be a pain in the ass.

I ran freebsd as a desktop for a few years. Don't have the patience for that nonsense anymore...

Desktop: Fedora
Sever: CentOS

:thumbsup

FreeBSD ;)

Actually, the "UNIX" portion of OSX is based on FreeBSD.

It's sort of a mixture of a few technologies. Mach, FreeBSD, some crap from NeXT too.

^ http://www.puredarwin.org

no its not..

Very cool, but I'd rather just run OpenBSD on my old Mac hw. :winkwink:

I assume you mean the constant compiling of ports. That shit is finally getting fixed with PKGNG.. it's basically just like aptitude on linux.

It was a joke, but still similar in some ways..

server CentOS

No .... OSX is 100% UNIX-based (BSD)

A lot of people probably want centos so they can have cpanel/whm.

i cant stand cpanel/whm, i guess i prefer to do everything via console