<div dir="ltr">I've used the lot of them and some more times than not, it has come down to client requirements for which distro needs to be used.<div><br></div><div>I will ring a voice in favour of CentOS. Maybe it's really in favour of RHEL which is where I've spent quite a bit of time. And really, I think I'm in favour of using RPM. I've found myself much happier using RPM to build deployable packages for clients, including localized RPM-install databases, than I have been using .DEB deploys. It could be that I don't have the zen of Deb down yet, a complete fault of my own, but RPM has been easier, it seems, for that type of work.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, when I'm whipping up a light-weight sever or running things on a laptop, I'll gravitate towards one of the Debian/Ubuntu variants such as Mint, Bohdi, or raw-Debian for server stuff.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Mark Iliffe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markiliffe@gmail.com" target="_blank">markiliffe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Echoing Jo's note on Ubuntu LTS. Personally experience of Centos was just too painful.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br>On 17 Nov 2014, at 12:32, Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">We use Ubuntu LTS for our AWS servers. I know it wasn't part of the question, but we have two under very similar load, doing the same things, one with SSD and one without- and I would definitely recommend SSD.<div><br></div><div>Jo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM, George Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:georger.silva@gmail.com" target="_blank">georger.silva@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I use Ubuntu for my servers. Some clients use CentOS.<br><br></div>Never tried OpenSuse and Debian.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Suk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petrxsuk@gmail.com" target="_blank">petrxsuk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br>I need to choose one linux distro for running our geospatial applications on AWS. It means running mainly GeoServer, MapServer, MapProxy, PostGIS and so on . I have my hot candidate but it's always good to know others opinion.<br>I know that it is not as simple, but please, can you just write your favorite one?<br>The shortlist is as follow:<br>OpenSuse, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian<br><br>Thanks for your tips.<span><font color="#888888"><br>Petr<br></font></span></div>
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