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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] 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.

[–] jerrimu 2 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu server is the best “other side” for minimal. For full featured, pop and elementary are stand outs.

[–] jerrimu 2 points 2 years ago

lol I been hopping and landed on red hat

[–] AlmightySnoo 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Arch Linux or maybe Alpine Linux if you don't necessarily want the latest kernel, want security and find musl to be cool.

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

Gentoo! it can be anything you want on any platform

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

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

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

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

[–] KeyLowMike85 2 points 2 years ago

There are several options. Alma/Rocky, Fedora, Debian, BSD, just to name a few.

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

Debian's pretty good, but you can always use RHEL with a free account too

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm a long time Opensuse user ~~but that is also somewhat RedHat based I think~~ . Highly recommend it, though. Have been using it on a server since 2014 and just kept updating through all the opensuse versions since then without problems. Exceptionally stable.

Also use it on my work laptop and I'm also with that very satisfied regarding stability and usability.

Edit: it's based on Slackware and not redhat.

[–] [email protected] 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.

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