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Linux Server OSes? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] m0unt4ine3r@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Gentoo for most of my personal machines. I currently have about 12 that I use actively (bare metal + virtual).

(Among other things,) I currently use Ceph across 3 servers for storage; Buildah/Podman/Skopeo, LXD, and Libvirt for virtualization; Git for versioning/a simple way to keep certain things in sync; and Saltstack to automate updates.

I have a dedicated virtual machine for building software packages which shares those built packages (currently via Virtiofs) with a LXD instance that exposes them over HTTP for my other machines to download so software only needs to be built/packaged once.