I’ve just put up an long-ish article I’ve written comparing five different server distributions.  I fully realise that by doing so I’m opening myself up to hundreds of flames from outraged fans of <insert OS here>, all complaining that I’ve treated their pet distro unfairly.

Given that I’ll probably be accused of bias anyway, I better declare mine: the server that is serving you this page runs Ubuntu, as does the one running the main Bashton site. Many of our internal-facing servers run CentOS. My desktop runs Ubuntu, and my laptop runs Debian. Other staff have their own bias of course (particularly those who are Debian developers..), but as it was just me writing the article I don’t see that as relevant.

Please make your comments here and hopefully we can start some form of a useful debate, rather than the ‘distro X is the best’ discussions these things usually descend into.

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