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Setting up a server

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Andre Duttmann
July 2, 2026 at 12:23 AM

Hi,

I am thinking of setting up a local server. I am so torn and twisted which distribution touse. On my computer I do some ditro hopping sometimes although I have focused pretty much on Fedora lately.

any suggestions which distro to use for the server?

Jason Ish
Jul 3, 2026 at 9:11 PM

Traditionally I’ve used RedHat, CentOS or AlmaLinux on the server side, but Fedora became so good at in place upgrades it’s been my goto for home servers for the past 3 years now. In the cloud I still tend to AlmaLinux though. But I gave up distro hopping years ago and stick to a small set of distros now.

Andre Duttmann
Jul 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM

Thanks. That helped to make a decision. As I mentioned I am on Fedora for a whilenow and I really like that one, so I will stick to it for the server.

Jason Ish
Jul 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM

Just wanted to note that I just upgraded my home everything server (Plex, Elasticsearch, backups, etc, etc) from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 without issue. I initially installed Fedora 30 on this machine in 2019, and every major upgrade has gone without issue. I usually wait a month or more after a release though.

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