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Discussion on: Which is the best Linux server distro?

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John Lauro

Depends on the use.
In general I prefer Redhat EL or Centos EL, which have 10 year support, that said because of the long support cycle the supported packages can be a bit dated between main releases. You can setup a server and besides for largely unbreaking patching it just works for many years.
Ubuntu is a bit more quirky, but has broad and fast support for newer software. That said, it will require to upgrade more often compared to Redhat/Centos, forced to do more portenialy breaking updates, but in general easier to upgrade over major version (which is good as you have to do it more often).
Recently for my home server I have been using PCLinuxOS. Not as popular or wide of support as Centos or Ubuntu, but it is light weight and major plus it is systemd free. So far, it has worked well as a base server.