Linux Servers: Which Distro should you use?!

In the Linux community, there's constant debate about which distribution is best for your desktop. However, there's not as much discussion regarding Linux distros for your server. There are many good options for your Linux server project, and in this video Jay discusses his top 6 choices.

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00:00:00 - Intro
01:08:45 - Debian (stable)
07:22:00 - Ubuntu Server
12:52:17 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
15:42:00 - CentOS
18:06:07 - AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux
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[amosgiture]

You hit all the critical points with this one. Oracle Linux deserves a mention due to its compatibility with RHEL and support options just like Rocky and Alma. Alpine deserves a mention too due to its small footprint and how different it is from the larger distros.

[Autotrope]

Your channel is way better than most other Linux content on YouTube, thanks so much for this wealth of info.

[logyross]

wow I literally searched "which distro should I choose for a linux server?" yesterday. Amazing timing Jay :)

[randyriegel]

I mainly use Debian Stable for my customers. As far as a few webservers that I run I use Gentoo. Gentoo is lightweight (no bloat) and can be configured exactly how you want it. It's a pain to setup but fun at the same time :)

[mdd]

13:55 with developer subscription, RHEL can be used in production for free with up to 16 systems/RHEL instances, including RHEL VMs...

[elektronkim]

It's new to me. Ubuntu Server was my choice for a file server to my router as I was having problems with so many laptops and scattered files on them. A bit mind blown about how great it is. I made a lot of changes without problems. I use SSH in Thunar or issue commands through login in the terminal. I also got it to work from Windows.

[TakumiSoldier]

Very comprehensive, informative and concise! Thank you!

[bertnijhof]

At home I still have a Pentium 4 server with 2 IDE and 2 SATA HDDs in total 1.21TB, so I use 32-bits FreeBSD 13 on OpenZFS. Since it is ancient (2003), it is only powered on during the backup for ~1 hour/week. In this way I can use it till the end of my time, since all HDDs have around 2 power-on years on the clock. If I need more space, I could replace the 2 x 320GB SATA HDDs with larger ones. My desktop and laptop run Ubuntu also with OpenZFS.
It is fun to find work for a ~20 year old PC in a Compaq Evo Tower with a Win98SE activation code, all parts are leftovers except a new $16 power-supply .

[TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

This was a great walk through... Thanks!

[amosgiture]

Covered aspects of the age of packages in Debian and would've been nice to mention the same regarding the other distros

[stargasm]

Nice list; the information about Alma & Rocky was useful to me. I didn't know they were out there.

[unpaintedcanvas]

I've never been a fan of ubuntu, esp desktop, because of the choices canonical made, but I still find it as my default go-to for home servers since it simplifies so much of the setup process.

[itbook]

Awesome analysis, Jay! Thank you very much! What is your personal server- choice between Alama and Rocky? Looking forward to see you tutorial for Suse. Best, Asen

[davebrowning]

I also started with Red Hat before they split it into Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Well I played around with a few distros before settling on RedHat. I switched to using Ubuntu for servers after that.

[PCMagikHomeLab]

jesus, I love You and Your movies!! Great Job!! Im waiting for more vids, i watched many Your videos and learn from You :) THANKS FOR EVERYTHING

[scheimong]

RHEL (and derivatives) have the additional advantage of shipping with (and tightly integrated with) SELinux, which is in many enterprise situations mandated by policy. Admittedly nobody has ever had anything resembling a "pleasant" first run-in with SELinux, but it's not actually that bad after you read up on RedHat's (excellent, btw) documentation. And the security bonus it offers is VERY real. I personally know of several server admins who had their arses saved by SELinux after waking up to zero-day CVEs.

[rickcontreras]

You’re the best. I have learned so much from you.

[Gottfried.Leibniz]

I personally use Debian for a + some image and video processing scripts (imagick/ffmpeg) server. It's 10 years now, only upgraded the hardware once (was not even needed but..hehe). Installed in 2011 and kept up-to-date. I see the love for Debian is widespread and I'm not surprised at all.

[naddu]

Plz do Videos on SUSE and if possible to cover for SAP Deployment senario in it. Great Videos 👍😊

[StMidium]

For a real life example: I am a sysadmin, and at home, I run a Proxmox hypervisor with a mix of Debian and Ubuntu VMs, and Alpine containers, plus a kubernetes cluster consisting of four Raspberry Pis (all running Ubuntu). Fedora on my laptop, and Pop_OS on my gaming desktop.

At work I administer a mix of Ubuntu and CentOS VMs, VMware and Proxmox hypervisors, and bare metal Ubuntu, CentOS and Windows servers.