Favorite OS for your VPSes?
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SmartOS
Supicioso
New Member
I don't really have a preference. I usually choose which ever is best for the task I need accomplished.
Never heard of SmartOS. Is it debian or rhel based?
It's Solaris based.
vanarp
Active Member
Using SmartOS on VPS or as the base OS of the node?
You have to use it as the base OS of the node and then be able to get a zone for it as a VPS.
Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
I typically use Debian for my VPSes. I did have Gentoo on one for awhile.. but ended up moving it to Deb as well (I prefer being able to update/patch/issue commands/etc to all of my stuff at once). I do use Gentoo on a couple of home machines - originally tried it out for the 'challenge' perceived from its reputation; and started to thoroughly enjoy working with it. There's also that nice smug feeling when some of my "linux user" (read: Ubuntu) friends sit at my workstation to do something, and are thoroughly lost.
This topic would be even better if people stated why they prefer a certain distro.
I run Debian, cause... well I really have no good reason (d'oh). I started off with Ubuntu and ran into some crap I couldn't resolve, switched to Debian and never really looked at anything else again, it just works.
I run Debian, cause... well I really have no good reason (d'oh). I started off with Ubuntu and ran into some crap I couldn't resolve, switched to Debian and never really looked at anything else again, it just works.
Abdussamad
New Member
I used to use CentOS. Then I read on LET that Debian used less RAM out of the box so I looked into that. Now I use Debian on my server and OpenSUSE at home.
ihatetonyy
New Member
CentOS. I learned the basics with Debian/Ubuntu, but helped my friend beat things into working order or do other stuff on his cPanel server, and so got used to CentOS.
It works well. yum misbehaves on little RAM, and low RAM VPSes are the only ones I'll use Debian on.
(Plus, building RPMs is way easier than building debs, IMO.)
It works well. yum misbehaves on little RAM, and low RAM VPSes are the only ones I'll use Debian on.
(Plus, building RPMs is way easier than building debs, IMO.)
Supicioso
New Member
So it's more or less like a virtualization type OS?
It is an actual OS made especially for "Cloud". It is used as the hypervisor. Provides zones (which is same as OpenVZ but since it's Solaris-like, it only support Solaris) and KVM. So you can run KVM on SmartOS. We delayed our KVM on CentOS products to take a look at this instead.
