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.
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.
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.
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!
DEBIAN
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 or Fedora
I personally go with Fedora Server with automatic security updates.
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
Alpine.
Hannah Montana Linux
You get a thumbs up for the humour though.
debian, but i prefer devuan personally
I’d go with Debian but it’s just a personal preference. I had some difficult to set up a samba server the other day in one of my laptops that was running fedora because of firewall configs that I don’t use in Debian like adding context or something. Besides that, I kinda think dnf is better than apt in some ways but still use Debian on my home server. I just works
