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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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[–] Bruce@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

With a server in mind I'd go OpenSuse Leap.

[–] bsdGuy0@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

If you are willing to abandon Linux, I would suggest FreeBSD for general purpose servers.

It is a full operating system, which starts you off with a CLI, that is easy to configure. There is a full handbook that describes the full process, and it is on their website. FreeBSD is an operating system, rather than a distribution of cobbled together packages. Due to this, operating system binaries, and package binaries, are separated. This makes configuration on the OS level consistent.

A lot of Linux programs come from the BSD family. FreeBSD also has its own hypervisor, named Bhyve. FreeBSD has its own version of Docker as well, they are called jails. It might take some time to learn, but I promise it will be worth the time.

[–] soulrx@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago

@bzImage For desktops/laptops my goto is https://ubuntu-mate.org/. For servers, I still use Rocky 9, a RHEL based distro, but I've been happy with Ubuntu servers as well. The ubiquity of Ubuntu just makes it easy to search for solutions to anything you encounter.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

This question is just going to draw a lot of "hey what's your favourite distro" responses.

But if you want something EL-like that isn't RHEL, consider the bastard child of Conectiva and Mandrake, long ejected from the RedHat family but still very similar -- PCLinuxOS. It has the superior signed packaging format, and it has much of the same workflow. Its packer compatibility suffers greatly from its mageia times - I think - so they're still a bit ghetto about anything at scale, but that's almost the only thing they don't have nailed-down. Their massive compatibility window delivers on everything AppStream claims but cannot.

For minimal stuff, consider AlpineLinux, which also is free of Systemd and still manages to run really well for reasons Lennart's fans simply can't understand.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone fill me in here, what did RedHat do?

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[–] ElectronBadger@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Debian Testing/Stable with backports/Stable. These I recommend.

[–] Maturi0n@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

On my Desktop, I switched to Manjaro (Arch-based) from Mint a few years ago. Works like a charm and I like the rolling release model. On servers, Ubuntu, Debian or SUSE might be a good choice.

[–] brainlokk@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What’s motivating you to leave?

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