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I know you asked for a linux OS but why not FreeBSD? I'm setting up my own server and i was adviced to use it as an excellent choice for my purpose.
ever considered why freebsd is not widespread in corporate server setups?
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Originally Posted by DimaYasny View Post
ever considered why freebsd is not widespread in corporate server setups?
MS ran hotmail on FreeBSD between 1996 and 2003. Worked fine for them.

Yahoo also (still) run on FreeBSD as do big names like Sony, the Apache foundation and Netcraft.

I agree that it indeed an excellent choice for servers.
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Originally Posted by jbennet View Post
MS ran hotmail on FreeBSD between 1996 and 2003. Worked fine for them.
MS isn't much of an example where OSS comes in

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Yahoo also (still) run on FreeBSD as do big names like Sony, the Apache foundation and Netcraft.
they are also using qmail, which is deprecated everywhere.

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I agree that it indeed an excellent choice for servers.
it used to be before kernel 2.6 for linux came along. but Linux is nowadays much farther ahead than BSD.
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it used to be before kernel 2.6 for linux came along. but Linux is nowadays much farther ahead than BSD.
I'm still a wannabe, what makes linux better than BSD in this matter?
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I'm still a wannabe, what makes linux better than BSD in this matter?
Better hardware support for wireless cards, video cards, laptops etc makes it better for home users.
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...and better enterprise grade hardware support makes it better for companies
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BEST STABLE FREE LINUX DISTROS FOR SERVERS - CentOS & Debian

 
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Hi

I need to know what's the best/stable and free OS for servers. (I was advised to install Ubuntu 9.04 Server). Did anybody installed this before on a heavily loaded commercial environment?

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Whats the best/stable and free OS for servers.?

1) CentOS (Basically a rebranding of RHEL without the Commercial $upport, app$ and logo$, binary compatible with RHEL)

2) Debian (Rock Solid FREE! without Commercial $upport truly your community backed linux distro)

after those 2 above another free community backed rock solid distro that would be great for servers would be Slackware Linux, IMHO.

**Commercial Offerings:
If you want with Commercial $upport then go for RHEL.
A 2nd runner up in this commercial category, would be Novell's
Suse Linux Enterprise Server Edition (SLES)

**GNU\Linux set aside:
If you decide to try something really secure that's not GNU\Linux but another unix-like OS that's really stable and secure Especially Great for Servers and FREE, FREE, FREE, probably more free than GNU\Linux because of such BSD licenses, go for FreeBSD.
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2) Debian (Rock Solid FREE! without Commercial $upport truly your community backed linux distro)

**GNU\Linux set aside:
If you decide to try something really secure that's not GNU\Linux but another unix-like OS that's really stable and secure Especially Great for Servers and FREE, FREE, FREE, probably more free than GNU\Linux because of such BSD licenses, go for FreeBSD.

So between Debian and FreeBSD what would you choose and why?
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Debian because its easier to keep patched in my opinion and it has lots of software available.
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Debian because its easier to keep patched in my opinion and it has lots of software available.
Which version of debian should i ask?
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