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What Linux distro are you using for your servers ?
Just curious to see what the most popular linux os the ycombinator community is using to launch their sites.
- robmnl 19y agoUsually debian, security patches are regular. Cons: packages can be a bit old.
- agranig 19y agoWhich might not be a problem for servers in most cases.
- bayareaguy 19y agorPath ( http://www.rpath.com/corp/ http://www.rpath.com/corp/ ) with custom patches.
- kirubakaran 19y agoDebian Stable
- cperciva 19y agoFreeBSD. (Ok, not a linux distribution, but it's an alternative to using a linux distribution.)
- jsnx 19y agoI 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.
- rkts 19y agoIt 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."
- jsnx 19y agoI hate to press you on this point -- the wreckage of many a flame war has barely had time to grow moss -- but can you point to a specific feature? I assume you mean OS level features -- system calls and such.
- rkts 19y agoI don't understand your question. Do you mean you want an aspect of FreeBSD that's easier to use?
- jsnx 19y agoSure.
- rkts 19y agoHmm... well, BSD init is easier to use than SysV init. The ports system is also known for its simplicity. The source code is contained in a single CVS tree and the entire OS can be built with a few commands. The man pages and handbook are consistent and well written. Much of the difference is subjective. FreeBSD feels coherently designed, whereas Linux is a patchwork of programs written by different people with different styles and philosophies. I don't know a lot about Gentoo (most of my experience is with Debian and Slackware) but from what I understand, its purpose is to be as flexible as possible. That's a legitimate goal, but it seems to conflict with ease of use.
- fedoramadera 19y agoFedora core 8 Solaris Ubuntu
- ivankirigin 19y agoUbuntu 7.10 server
- jmzachary 19y agoSame here. Easy to admin and stable.
- ezmobius 19y agoGentoo all the way.
- rhaygood 19y agoYou're Ezra Zygmuntowicz, right? (If not, sorry.) So why so little about Gentoo in "Deploying Rails applications"?
- yqiang 19y agoI use Ubuntu 7.10 64bit.
- mattmaroon 19y agoCentOS 5.
- rms 19y agoCentOs 5.0, for the easy Virtualmin GPL install
- jbyers 19y agoRHEL4, 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 19y agoDebian
- eelinow 19y agoNot linux.. FreeBSD
- Cald 19y agoSlackware
- etheriau 19y agoOpenSuSE
- brianr 19y agoFedora 8
- gibsonf1 19y agoAmazon EC2 Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy AMI built using code customized by Eric Hammond <ehammond@thinksome.com> For more information: http://ec2gutsy.notlong.com http://ec2gutsy.notlong.com
- polar 19y agoSlackware.
- ochiba 19y agoCentos
- jsnx 19y agoGentoo
- patrickg-zill 19y agoSolaris whenever I can, CentOS5 otherwise. Solaris has excellent threading and some apps I run for customers therefore run better on Solaris.
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- tx 19y agoUbuntu 6.06 LTS 64-bit. It is beyond me why so many people use non-LTS release of Ubuntu on their production servers.
- elad 19y agoCentOS 5
- cheponis 19y agoI need reliability, with a bias on using source code to produce my running binaries. Of course, I run NetBSD.
- goncha 19y agoGentoo, both desktop and server
- kashif 19y agoDebian Etch
- voldern 19y agoI use FreeBSD (not GNU/Linux), Debian and Ubuntu on my servers.
- inklesspen 19y agoDebian testing
- RyanGWU82 19y agoCentOS 4.4. (I'd upgrade to 5, but it's a huge pain on SliceHost at the moment.)
- ivan 19y agoWhy is it pain?
- enmand 19y agoGentoo on two, ArchLinux on one