Windows or Linux on your server?

I prefer linux. I have Debian on my server? What do you use and why? What are the key benefits?

 

I'm using CentOS 4.4 on my VPS

 

FreeBSD all the way

 

gentoo forever cos its easy to use for me (i have been using it for 6 years) and you can easily change everything on gentoo

 

Probably the thing I like most about Debian is the aptitude. Whenever I need a new program or to update\upgrade my programs all I need to do is:

apt-get install php4

And then php gets installed. There is also a way to search for programs and I can update my entire server using two commands.

 

CentOS 4.4 because it is used by almost all webhosting companies out there...

 

Linux: Ununtu desktop for home simplicity, Debian for cPanel running... CentOS if you don't know what you are doing and need help from a others... and need your hosting company to manage your box.

Microsoft if your clients want it/you are used to it. If you need big db multi user databases access is a good way to go.

Currently running CentOS on servers, fiddling with Ubuntu at home - but also have XP media center running.

 

As much as I love Gentoo (and I've been using it from the start as well) I really don't recommend it for a server environment. There's been too many times where updates have broken my environment (Postfix comes to mind) where I had to immediately drop what I was doing and spend a bunch of time fixing things. I guess if you only manage a small amount of boxes and had a lot of time to devote to it, it wouldn't be so bad, but I use CentOS for pretty much everything now.

 

Gimme Linux any day..the other stuff is too complicated.

 

This is a history of OS which I used

1989 - 1991 Soviet Network OS ( forget its name )
1991 - 1995 MSDOS 3.30
1995 - 1997 Windows *.*
1997 - 2007 Linux Debian and RedHat

 

I use linux because it's popular

 

Generally I prefer Gentoo as well, and haven't run into many problems like this. I currently run it on a couple pretty large website clusters, and it's performing great for me. One site would chug along slowly when it was running a RPM-based distro (RHEL), but once I switched to Gentoo, the system runs fast with a very reduced load.

 

I have been using windows all the way. Until my first gentoo distro, then i moved to osx. I do prefer gentoo on my vps but it was not offered. So my current vps is using Centos 4.4

 

FreeBSD for production, Linux for research.

 

On CPanel servers I run Cent OS 4.4, on Other servers I generally go for Fedora Core 5. I have Xubuntu 6.10 on a laptop too.

 

Lol I used to use Kickstart 3.1

 

I use Linux Fedora which is very nice.

Cheers !
Thibaut

 

You mean Amiga, LOL I used to play with OS 1.2 last 1988

Regards
Thibaut

 

It's cutting edge stuff. I also have Commodore Basic (c64)

 

CentOS 4.4 and Redhat Enterprise on our production servers

ubuntu at home