Guys I want to setup a home server. My main choices are>CentOS>Mint>Debian>Fedora>Some *BSD crapAnyone here running a home server with any of the systems mentioned?Which would be best suited for the task?

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Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:03:14 No.547398

Guys I want to setup a home server. My main choices are

>CentOS

>Mint

>Debian

>Fedora

>Some *BSD crap

Anyone here running a home server with any of the systems mentioned?

Which would be best suited for the task?

Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:04:26 No.547399

Install Gentoo

Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:19:37 No.547407

>home server

Just pick the same distro you're running on desktop to save time

Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:21:41 No.547408

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>>547399

/thread

Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:24:14 No.547411

Why Mint as opposed to vanilla Ubuntu? Are you going to be using the GUI?

Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:34:57 No.547417

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>>547398

I'm running a headless CentOS server, werks bretty gud for my uses (seedbox, file sharing, mumble)

I honestly don't really think it matters but I would go for a minimal distro for a home server personally so no GUI or any stuff that will waste RAM or disk space.

I'm sure Gentoo would work great actually

Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:38:06 No.547424

>>547398

debian 8

Void Linux (musl)

almost any distro prepackages common server software and utils

fail2ban, nginx, php,uwsgi, i2p,etc.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:03:19 No.547450

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>>547417

Also running CentOS, it's great.

Best OS I ever used on a server.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:16:57 No.547460

>>547398

Get AntiX. It's just debian-testing with a bunch of ultra light desktop environments and systemd removed out of the box. Trisquel-mini is the only other OS that comes close. Mint is gay, CentOS is for grandpa, plain Debian is just cucked AntiX, Fedora is bleeding edge fags who fap to instability, and BSD is hipster fags with <1% of the market share, as is compile-it-yourself bullshit from Gentoo.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:20:39 No.547463

>server

>Linux Mint, Fedora

This is a troll post right

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:20:44 No.547464

>>547398

>CentOS

cancer

>Mint

the most cancerous of distribution

>Debian

kernel with blobs and authorize the use of non free software

>Fedora

cancer meme

>Some *BSD crap

it's crap and use non free software

here's the list of supported distro by the fsf

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

want a server on debian use gnewsense it's debian but without the crap

want something easy like linux mint (mint is based on ubuntu)

use trisquel

want something that has just what you need but you will spend hours to learn use guix

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:41:47 No.547501

>>547398

>Devuan

If you want everything to "just werk"

>Gentoo

If you want everything your way

>CentOS

If you are a government employee

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 10:32:06 No.547683

>>547417

>>547450

What made you choose CentOS over debian?

>also dat eerily similar uptime

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 13:25:42 No.547720

CentOS.

Is the only one focused on being a server distro from all these.

Mint is focused on desktops, debian is shit, fedora is RHEL with desktop bloat.

lol bsd

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 13:32:13 No.547722

ubuntu server works fine for me despite the autism in this thread

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 13:50:53 No.547729

>>547720

>debian is shit

im sure you can back that up with faces?

>inb4 MUH SYSTEMXD

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 13:51:11 No.547731

>>547729

facts*