Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web applications?

Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by rms on Sunday October 19, 2008 @05:38AM (#336996)

Debian... the last poll on this showed that the vast majority (90%+) of posters here are running Debian on their servers.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by davidw on Sunday October 19, 2008 @05:50AM (#337000)

Its derivative, Ubuntu, is pretty good too. I use it, and really enjoy the fact that I run the same thing on my server and on my laptop. Wikipedia is switching to Ubuntu, apparently.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by jwilliams on Sunday October 19, 2008 @09:36AM (#337067)

I'd recommend Ubuntu too - especially if most of your work is "vanilla" - e.g. Apache, MySQL, etc. The assistance around this is both high quality and accessible (not that it's not with Debian... I just find it better for Ubuntu).

Once you get running you might consider a switch to Debian, but I've never reached that point.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by charlesju on Sunday October 19, 2008 @11:48AM (#337120)

I use Ubuntu too. Great repositories, very stable, all the normal unix tools, good stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by SwellJoe on Sunday October 19, 2008 @05:58AM (#337004)

the last poll on this showed that the vast majority (90%+) of posters here are running Debian on their servers.

That would be a self-selecting poll and highly unscientific. I don't remember it. But, I'm confident it was skewed, even amongst the technorati found here at HN. CentOS is dramatically more popular for web hosting (ask any web host you know that offers both).

I think Debian is awesome, and you definitely won't go wrong choosing it for a server (or any system, really). I'm not at all arguing that Debian is a poor choice--it's a great choice. I just wanted to point out that 90% seems ridiculously high for Debian market share on web servers.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by rms on Sunday October 19, 2008 @07:01AM (#337023)

Yeah, you're right, I'm probably wrong. There probably wasn't a poll, maybe I'm thinking of the comment thread that got voted to the top or something.

I'll make a poll about it later today, unless someone else makes one first.

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