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?
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.
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.
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.
Fedora or Rocky Linux are good choices. I work at a RHEL shop so Fedora works as a good playground when trying things out.
I will start to setup my server next month. Right now the Association keeps me pretty busy.
We are planning to launch our own web server and thats quite some work.
Ahh. For "production" workloads I'd suggest Rocky Linux. It's what CentOS used to be. Or if it's a business that can afford it RHEL is pretty solid, though I'm less impressed with Red Hat's choices, such as replacing GNU screen with tmux.
They also replaced NTP with chrony. (Full disclosure, I'm involved with NTP at nwtime.org. The main NTP developers tell me that the NTP algorithm is more comprehensive than chrony.) Red Hat's choices are not those that I would have made.
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