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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

As an old fart, I'm happy to see that Debian is still cool. All of this arch-manjaro-nix-os-awesome-bspwm-i3-xmonad-flatsnap whippersnapper stuff is over my head.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Realistically, it doesn't make sense for folks to be using bleeding edge distros like Arch for a server anyway. LTS of Debian or even Ubuntu are definitely the right answer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Back when I was hyper into Arch I used it for my servers. "Why not make it the same as your development environment?". Anyways, that immediately stops working when your development environment changes. For a server, just use Debian or Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

"flatsnap". This made my day

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm all for using Debian and such, and I think out of all the new and hip things people brag about, using Flatpak is the most useful thing for the average user experience and worth checking out. Everything (almost) else is just extra.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As an old fart, Devuan is like debian of yesteryear. Debian without systemd.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

@withersailor @Borgzilla There's also #Elive Retrowave to consider.
You get to choose in the installer which system you want.