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What is your favourite linux-based operating system?

fisle

Active Member
I love myself a good ol' Debian for servers. Desktops / laptops get some Arch Linux love from me though :)
 

MannDude

Just a dude
vpsBoard Founder
Moderator
I'm more familiar with the ways of Debian, and for that reason it's my first choice when setting up a new server for myself.
 

Geek

Technolojesus
Verified Provider
Been primarily a Debian user for almost 20 years. 
Story time!

The first provider I worked for (2001) was a purely Debian shop.  Talk about a baptism by fire ... I remember him talking about how he was sick of something in Potato and wanted to get his hands on Woody.  I didn't want to look like a complete newb, and since I don't care how people want to live their lives, I ... well, thought he was referring to a person/nickname  and didn't say anything until a couple months later when it clicked what he was referring to.

I guess you could say I owe a lot of my career to Potato Woody.

Actually, He and I still talk sometimes and I found out that in April he sold off his client base and retired a very wealthy man....with his secretary at his side. Bittersweet when I heard ... I really wanted a hunk of those clients, and the "virtual-server.com" that would have been included. 

The HTML4/5 combo-site he made in 1995 and overhauled once more in '04 are still in production while the new owners migrate off the clients. 

Be prepared ... it has the 1995 cloud background in some spots.  

http://elaine.pcez.com/

http://elaine.pcez.com/spam/ -- the first "company websites" contribution.  Still in the author tag of the source. Don't even remember which WYSIWYG i used.

http://www.pcez.com/virtual/ -- the former "virtual-server.com" -- virtual servers that I don't think were actual virtual servers. By today's definition they sure weren't.

At least it looks like he got one last update in before i left...  ;)

Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_auth_kerb/5.3 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny16 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 

Anyhoo, putting the coffee down.  :)
 
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k0nsl

Bad Goy
It all depends on what I have to deploy, but lately its been mostly Debian.

For work I'm currently stuck on a Windows 8.1 box, and strangely enough it doesn't suck. I hate to say it, but it just doesn't. I've had zero issues.

Then again, if I would've had a *nix based solution for the workstation I'd probably get more done, be more productive. Oh well  -_-

Right now I'm testing openSUSE 13.1 and might stick with it. We'll see ;)
k0nsl-opensuse01.png
 

willie

Active Member
I've been using debian on servers and fedora on desktops, but had been thinking of going to a debian desktop as well, though dunno what to make of the systemd brouhaha (mostly on the server side).  If I were more hardcore I'd use Gentoo.  More recently Guix and its parent Nixos have been interesting, though I haven't gotten around to trying either. 
 

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
Gentoo isn't so much for the hardcore, but the extreme OCD.  When I need very specific configurations or source builds, I'll pick Gentoo over Debian just for the level of customization available.  One huge advantage of Gentoo though - people find themselves too afraid to touch your comp :p
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Gentoo isn't so much for the hardcore, but the extreme OCD.  When I need very specific configurations or source builds, I'll pick Gentoo over Debian just for the level of customization available.  One huge advantage of Gentoo though - people find themselves too afraid to touch your comp :p
When I want to piss off Fran*

Stupid Gentoo.

Francisco
 

comXyz

New Member
It's vote result for now

linux-systems-vote-result-141029.jpg


@Geek http://elaine.pcez.com/spam/ this makes me remember my first HTML file...
 

souen

Active Member
CentOS and Debian for servers. I have a laptop with Fedora and went with CentOS on servers when Fedora templates were unavailable depending on the provider. CentOS is well-supported by server scripts/tools,  Debian is great with small (<=128 MB) servers for making the most out of the allocated memory.
 

RLT

Active Member
Started with Slackware. Went to RedHat then Pink Fedora.


Somewhere in there started using Debian a lot. Desktop for my wife she loves SuSe / OpenSuSe.


Honestly though I prefer FreeBSD for most things.
 

comXyz

New Member
Wow, there are some unix based systems I didn't know before. OpenSuSe looks awesome. I'm going to try it.
 
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