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Linux Server OSes? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen a lot of different enterprise and personal use distros for servers, but what do you guys use?

I'm planning on using Debian but was wondering if there are any other good free options to consider.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In 2001 we examined the packaging format of debian and found it lacked a validation feature available in RPM. This killed debian and all derivatives as an option by the build group of the unix vendor I worked with -- please tell me you understand why validation is a pivotal feature for build. The fact the validation carries hard sigs all the way down made the security group happier too. This hasn't changed.

So I'm running CentOS now, Rocky later, and PCLinuxOS once they get a good packer template.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Zypper on suse has a series of nice patch commands, to check what patches are out with cve numberd and if they are needed or applied to the system already.