Ubuntu server is pretty slick -- all the goodness of Debian with up-to-date packages. The best Linux distro is probably a BSD variant. Fail -- I'm a huge Free

Ubuntu server is pretty slick -- all the goodness of Debian with up-to-date packages. The best Linux distro is probably a BSD variant. Fail -- I'm a huge FreeBSD fan but did you consider that perhaps this app is written in Java, which to this day has second rate support in FreeBSD (largely due to Sun).