I am about to set up a cloud instance with linux operating system, and the common choice here normally would be ubuntu. But since they failed their newest release, and I have the option of going fedora or debian. What would you guys recommend for server?
Best fit is always dependent on how you’re planning to use it. Find out what your requirements before you set up a server.
Generally Debian is chosen very often, but I’d wager pretty much any distro will do. Your own experience goes a long way in making a distro a good choice.
It is going to run af .go application that is the backend for my website. Handling user logins, database translation etc.
Go applications are statically built. So you don’t really need anything special on the server for that. Anything will do. Debian would be fine here.
Which one has the biggest repositpry libruary off the bat? It’s a GUI-less server. So no browser downloading of .deb files anyways.
OpenMediaVault comes with a beginner friendly webui, and all programs from the debian repos are available. It’s plain debian under the hood. You can install docker, lxc, k8s and kvm plugins and they are managable from the webui.
Not an option on Scaleway cloud services.
Debian is a great pick. It’s stable and has a great support community.
Debian would be the most obvious choice. Perhaps Alma is also a good option. If you would like a european option, OpenSUSE leap can also do the job.
Can’t say anything for professional use, but debian is rock solid, always a strong choice for servers.
Denian Stable. It just works.
I personally favour Alpine Linux for its minimalism, but Devuan or Debian are fine, and more familiar choices, too. Depending on what you intend to run, especially appliance-like things, OpenBSD might be a good alternative.
Debian & Alma of course!
Professional as in an organisation? You should probably start by gathering functional and non-functional requirements from stakeholders.
It’s for running a .go app as a backend through an api to my website/app frontend.
Which reverse proxy?
DEBIAN
Rhel if you are using professionally. Their enterprise support staff are wizards when it comes to finding the cause of random issues.
Not an option on Scaleway unfortunately
I usually have Debian on all my servers for stability, and run almost everything inside containers for convenience. The few things that run directly in Debian are nginx for reverse proxying to container services, fail2ban+firewall, and wireguard for everything that moves data between servers/computers/devices I own
Debian or Fedora
I personally go with Fedora Server with automatic security updates.
Alpine.
debian, but i prefer devuan personally
What’s failed about their newest release ?
Mostly the uutils.
- MIT license isn’t nice.
- They have way more CVEs than the core utils they replace.
- They don’t have feature parity yet, so if you use some rare flags in your scripts, those will break.
Code rewrites are always going to have growing pains. Rewriting gnu-corrutils in rust is a noble effort.
Should have used agpl if they wanted to be noble.
But this is just a corpo moating strategy.
Dno, I don’t use Ubuntu. Just heard from all my Linux sources (podcasts, forums, etc) that their Newest release sucked.
LOL, you could hear that about pretty much every release of any software.
Maybe, still got me worried about installing v. 26.x.x
