I am about to set up a cloud instance with linux operating system, and the common choice here normally would be ubuntu. But since they failed their newest release, and I have the option of going fedora or debian. What would you guys recommend for server?
Do yourself a favor and go with Nixos. Dive head first into to the rabbit hole and set up a repeatable and immutable system. You’ll thank yourself later when so many maintenance tasks become a GitOps workflow: update config, commit, push, build, deploy, rollback if it fails
Thank you!
DEBIAN
Denian Stable. It just works.
Debian is a great pick. It’s stable and has a great support community.
SME here, moving around 300 vms from Rocky to Debian.
But your question is really too vague. Our workflows are quite traditional, but the world is a big place and there is no single right answer here.
Best fit is always dependent on how you’re planning to use it. Find out what your requirements before you set up a server.
Generally Debian is chosen very often, but I’d wager pretty much any distro will do. Your own experience goes a long way in making a distro a good choice.
It is going to run af .go application that is the backend for my website. Handling user logins, database translation etc.
Go applications are statically built. So you don’t really need anything special on the server for that. Anything will do. Debian would be fine here.
Which one has the biggest repositpry libruary off the bat? It’s a GUI-less server. So no browser downloading of .deb files anyways.
OpenMediaVault comes with a beginner friendly webui, and all programs from the debian repos are available. It’s plain debian under the hood. You can install docker, lxc, k8s and kvm plugins and they are managable from the webui.
Not an option on Scaleway cloud services.
I’ve seen mostly RHEL in professional server environments.
Hannah Montana Linux
You get a thumbs up for the humour though.
Debian would be the most obvious choice. Perhaps Alma is also a good option. If you would like a european option, OpenSUSE leap can also do the job.
Debian or Fedora
I personally go with Fedora Server with automatic security updates.
Rhel if you are using professionally. Their enterprise support staff are wizards when it comes to finding the cause of random issues.
Not an option on Scaleway unfortunately
I personally favour Alpine Linux for its minimalism, but Devuan or Debian are fine, and more familiar choices, too. Depending on what you intend to run, especially appliance-like things, OpenBSD might be a good alternative.
Professional as in an organisation? You should probably start by gathering functional and non-functional requirements from stakeholders.
It’s for running a .go app as a backend through an api to my website/app frontend.
Can’t say anything for professional use, but debian is rock solid, always a strong choice for servers.
How did Ubuntu fail their newest release?
