What Linux distribution to use with IPS ?

[Kurt De Pauw]

Hello,

@ my VPS distributor I have the opportunity to use the below Linux distributions.

What is the best distribution to use with IPS ?

- Gentoo
- CentOs
- Debian
- Elastix
- Ubuntu

- Scientific
- Linux Arch
- Linux PBXware
- openSUSE
- SME Server
- Mageia

[sijad]

CentOs usually use for vps

[Grumpy]

Doesn't really matter. Go with centos if you don't really have any specific preference.

[euantor]

Personally I'm a fan of Debian - mostly because I prefer apt to yum.

[zbahadir]

Personally I'm a fan of Debian - mostly because I prefer apt to yum.

I always use debian.

[Dmacleo]

i use cent as I know it works well with cpanel

but thats really just a preference, and a habit.

[zbahadir]

I prefer to Directadmin and Debian. :)

[Aussie Cable]

Centos 6.3 x64 because we use WHM/cPanel

[bfarber]

We use CentOS exclusively FWIW

[Makoto]

I used to use CentOS. More specifically CentOS 5.5. Packages were so old they became largely incompatible with half of the programs I used or tried to compaile, I ended up switching to Debian right before CentOS 6's long overdue release.

I don't really have a problem with CentOS, but I'm pretty grounded to using Debian as my server's operating system.

Actually almost opted for trying FreeBSD a few times though.

[Rhett]

Centos packages are all dependent on the repositories you are using. The current 5.x is 5.8 and there are no issues from my experience with 5.x or 6.x, however 6.x has better support for ext4 which performs much better.

Centos is the most widely support OS for web servers as well.

[stoo2000]

Centos packages are all dependent on the repositories you are using. The current 5.x is 5.8 and there are no issues from my experience with 5.x or 6.x, however 6.x has better support for ext4 which performs much better.

Centos is the most widely support OS for web servers as well.

RHEL ?!

I must be the only one that uses RHEL :unsure:

[Martin A.]

RHEL ?!

I must be the only one that uses RHEL :unsure:

It's still on the chart ;)

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_is_now_the_most_popular_linux_distribution_on_web_servers

[stoo2000]

It's still on the chart ;)

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_is_now_the_most_popular_linux_distribution_on_web_servers

That'll be the 2 servers I have it on then :lol:

[PatrickRQ]

I used to debian, 6.0.6 x64 in use..

[srpurdy]

Right now I use CentOs 5 and 6 strictly in 64bit.. I played with pretty much all of the distro's I just like CentOs the most, but probably because it was the first distro I used and I got used to it. :smile:

[Lt.IIsidII]

Debían with nginx.