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What Linux distro are you using for your servers ?

13 points| mhidalgo | 18 years ago | reply

Just curious to see what the most popular linux os the ycombinator community is using to launch their sites.

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[+] robmnl|18 years ago|reply
Usually debian, security patches are regular. Cons: packages can be a bit old.
[+] agranig|18 years ago|reply
Which might not be a problem for servers in most cases.
[+] cperciva|18 years ago|reply
FreeBSD. (Ok, not a linux distribution, but it's an alternative to using a linux distribution.)
[+] jsnx|18 years ago|reply
I 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.
[+] tx|18 years ago|reply
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS 64-bit. It is beyond me why so many people use non-LTS release of Ubuntu on their production servers.
[+] bilbo|18 years ago|reply
What does LTS have to do with production? Unless you plan to leave your servers still for 7 years I don't see why you can't use the latest and greatest. It isn't as if LTS if the only one that gets patched, it just gets patched for the longest.
[+] davidw|18 years ago|reply
To get up to date packages?
[+] RyanGWU82|18 years ago|reply
CentOS 4.4. (I'd upgrade to 5, but it's a huge pain on SliceHost at the moment.)
[+] ivan|18 years ago|reply
Why is it pain?
[+] patrickg-zill|18 years ago|reply
Solaris whenever I can, CentOS5 otherwise. Solaris has excellent threading and some apps I run for customers therefore run better on Solaris.
[+] jbyers|18 years ago|reply
RHEL4, 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.

[+] ezmobius|18 years ago|reply
Gentoo all the way.
[+] rhaygood|18 years ago|reply
You're Ezra Zygmuntowicz, right? (If not, sorry.) So why so little about Gentoo in "Deploying Rails applications"?
[+] rms|18 years ago|reply
CentOs 5.0, for the easy Virtualmin GPL install
[+] cheponis|18 years ago|reply
I need reliability, with a bias on using source code to produce my running binaries.

Of course, I run NetBSD.

[+] voldern|18 years ago|reply
I use FreeBSD (not GNU/Linux), Debian and Ubuntu on my servers.
[+] enmand|18 years ago|reply
Gentoo on two, ArchLinux on one
[+] goncha|18 years ago|reply
Gentoo, both desktop and server