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 wheels on Sunday October 19, 2008 @08:16AM (#337038)

I'd say pick the distribution you know best, with a few provisos:

  - It's one of the major distributions
  - It's not Gentoo

I used to use SuSE on servers because I knew SuSE best, and before that Redhat for the same reason. Now I use Ubuntu. All have been fine. Worst case is getting something on a server that you don't know how to configure.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by speek on Sunday October 19, 2008 @10:45AM (#337095)

SuSE makes me cry. I mean, it's a great desktop distro... but I'm not sure how stable it is for servers. I could be completely wrong, but I'm completely biased from the dep-hell I had to go through with SuSE a while ago.

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Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web ap... by wheels on Sunday October 19, 2008 @11:21AM (#337108)

I worked in the SAP LinuxLab for four years where our two supported distros were Redhat (RHEL) and SuSE (SLES). Both are fine for servers.

Usually when people have problems with SuSE's package manager it's because they added non-standard repositories to YaST and the packages are broken in strange and mischievous ways. That's not to say that I've not seen stuff broken with SuSE, but not with particularly higher frequency than other distros.

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