[OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences

[Dan Little]

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.

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.

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.



On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Echoing Jo's note on Ubuntu LTS. Personally experience of Centos was just
> too painful.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 17 Nov 2014, at 12:32, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Jo
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM, George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I use Ubuntu for my servers. Some clients use CentOS.
>>
>> Never tried OpenSuse and Debian.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Suk <petrxsuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> 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.
>>> I know that it is not as simple, but please, can you just write your
>>> favorite one?
>>> The shortlist is as follow:
>>> OpenSuse, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian
>>>
>>> Thanks for your tips.
>>> Petr
>>>
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