I am about to set up a cloud instance with linux operating system, and the common choice here normally would be ubuntu. But since they failed their newest release, and I have the option of going fedora or debian. What would you guys recommend for server?

  • SpicySquid@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 个月前

    Best fit is always dependent on how you’re planning to use it. Find out what your requirements before you set up a server.

    Generally Debian is chosen very often, but I’d wager pretty much any distro will do. Your own experience goes a long way in making a distro a good choice.

    • somethingDotExe@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 个月前

      Which one has the biggest repositpry libruary off the bat? It’s a GUI-less server. So no browser downloading of .deb files anyways.

    • somethingDotExe@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      3 个月前

      It is going to run af .go application that is the backend for my website. Handling user logins, database translation etc.

      • SpicySquid@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 个月前

        Go applications are statically built. So you don’t really need anything special on the server for that. Anything will do. Debian would be fine here.

  • lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.worksFrançais
    4·
    3 个月前

    Can’t say anything for professional use, but debian is rock solid, always a strong choice for servers.

  • tirateimas@lemmy.pt
    4·
    3 个月前

    Debian would be the most obvious choice. Perhaps Alma is also a good option. If you would like a european option, OpenSUSE leap can also do the job.

  • f3nyx@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 个月前

    Github has zero 9’s so at this point just use Arch for everything fuck it

    (I would personally recommend Debian)

  • Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 个月前

    I personally favour Alpine Linux for its minimalism, but Devuan or Debian are fine, and more familiar choices, too. Depending on what you intend to run, especially appliance-like things, OpenBSD might be a good alternative.

  • SlicedPotato@feddit.dk
    2·
    3 个月前

    Both Debian and RHEL-like distros are solid choices. Both are super stable. Debian tends to not always have the newest packages, so if you want that I’d steer away from Debian. Personally I use Rocky Linux for my servers. It’s based on RHEL, meaning each new major version benefits from Red Hat’s 10 years of software support. Debian (and derivates) have better community support I think, but RHEL has very solid documentation (which for the most part applies directly to Rocky, Alma etc.)

    Here’s a great article outlining the differences between Alma and Rocky.

    But for something simple like running a Go application, both should work just fine, so choose what you’re most comfortable with.

    Rocky is available at Scaleway too.

  • consequential@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 个月前

    Do yourself a favor and go with Nixos. Dive head first into to the rabbit hole and set up a repeatable and immutable system. You’ll thank yourself later when so many maintenance tasks become a GitOps workflow: update config, commit, push, build, deploy, rollback if it fails

  • Goingdown@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    3 个月前

    I would use Ubuntu LTS (free) or Redhat Enterprise Linux. If paying is not an option, some RHEL derivate would probably also work.

    Care to elaborate how Ubuntu failed newest release?

  • Egonallanon@feddit.uk
    1·
    3 个月前

    I’ve used rocky Linux on a couple of boxes and it’s been very good to me though I’ve since rationalised everything to Debian for the sake of simplifying my setup.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
    1·
    3 个月前

    Professional Server grade distro, would probably be either Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or OpenSUSE Enterprise Linux.

    For my personal homelab server I run Arch Linux, but I wouldn’t do it in an enterprise.