What Linux distro are you using for your servers ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100658

by mhidalgo • 19 years ago

13 43 19 years ago

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Just curious to see what the most popular linux os the ycombinator community is using to launch their sites.

robmnl• 19 years ago

Usually debian, security patches are regular. Cons: packages can be a bit old.

agranig• 19 years ago

Which might not be a problem for servers in most cases.

bayareaguy• 19 years ago

rPath ( http://www.rpath.com/corp/ ) with custom patches.

kirubakaran• 19 years ago

Debian Stable

cperciva• 19 years ago

FreeBSD. (Ok, not a linux distribution, but it's an alternative to using a linux distribution.)

jsnx4• 19 years ago

I would like to hear more about why you use it. I used to use FreeBSD for everything, but it's my understanding that the once significant differences in performance and stability between Linux and BSD no longer amount to anything. I switched to Gentoo (can not give up source builds!) two years ago.

rkts3• 19 years ago

It typically has less to do with performance or stability than with ease of use. While Linux is piling on features, BSD focuses on clean design and quality of code and documentation. Linux is "do it now," BSD is "do it right."

fedoramadera• 19 years ago

Fedora core 8 Solaris Ubuntu

icky• 19 years ago

Why the heterogeneous environment?

ivankirigin• 19 years ago

Ubuntu 7.10 server

jmzachary• 19 years ago

Same here. Easy to admin and stable.

ezmobius• 19 years ago

Gentoo all the way.

rhaygood• 19 years ago

You're Ezra Zygmuntowicz, right? (If not, sorry.) So why so little about Gentoo in "Deploying Rails applications"?

yqiang• 19 years ago

I use Ubuntu 7.10 64bit.

mattmaroon• 19 years ago

CentOS 5.

rms• 19 years ago

CentOs 5.0, for the easy Virtualmin GPL install

jbyers• 19 years ago

RHEL4, though the site's a few years old. Would do RHEL5 if it was today.

Personally, I run Debian. But RedHat really does a good of not breaking stuff at the cost of less frequent updates.

ojbyrne• 19 years ago

Debian

eelinow• 19 years ago

Not linux.. FreeBSD

Cald• 19 years ago

Slackware

etheriau• 19 years ago

OpenSuSE

brianr• 19 years ago

Fedora 8

gibsonf1• 19 years ago

Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy AMI built using code customized by Eric Hammond <ehammond@thinksome.com> For more information: http://ec2gutsy.notlong.com

polar• 19 years ago

Slackware.

ochiba• 19 years ago

Centos

jsnx4• 19 years ago

Gentoo

patrickg-zill• 19 years ago

Solaris whenever I can, CentOS5 otherwise. Solaris has excellent threading and some apps I run for customers therefore run better on Solaris.

tx• 19 years ago

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS 64-bit. It is beyond me why so many people use non-LTS release of Ubuntu on their production servers.

davidw• 19 years ago

To get up to date packages?

bilbo• 19 years ago

What does LTS have to do with production? Unless you plan to leave your servers still for 7 years I don't see why you can't use the latest and greatest. It isn't as if LTS if the only one that gets patched, it just gets patched for the longest.

elad• 19 years ago

CentOS 5

cheponis• 19 years ago

I need reliability, with a bias on using source code to produce my running binaries.

Of course, I run NetBSD.

goncha• 19 years ago

Gentoo, both desktop and server

kashif• 19 years ago

Debian Etch

voldern• 19 years ago

I use FreeBSD (not GNU/Linux), Debian and Ubuntu on my servers.

inklesspen• 19 years ago

Debian testing

RyanGWU82• 19 years ago

CentOS 4.4. (I'd upgrade to 5, but it's a huge pain on SliceHost at the moment.)

ivan• 19 years ago

Why is it pain?

enmand• 19 years ago

Gentoo on two, ArchLinux on one

What Linux distro are you using for your servers ?

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