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Anasadi · 02-08-2013, 08:50 PM

The flavor of distro shouldn't matter too much as they all likely use the same kernel. That said, the most popular server distros are Debian (of which Ubuntu is an offshoot) and Fedora (the community version of RedHat,) and your choice usually boils down to whether you want to use apt-get (Debian) or yum (Fedora.) There are other differences, of course, but they are mostly cosmetic (e.g. where to place standard config files, or how to set up CRON jobs.)

02-08-2013, 08:50 PM	#2
Anasadi New Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 25	Re: Choosing a Linux Distro for my VPS The flavor of distro shouldn't matter too much as they all likely use the same kernel. That said, the most popular server distros are Debian (of which Ubuntu is an offshoot) and Fedora (the community version of RedHat,) and your choice usually boils down to whether you want to use apt-get (Debian) or yum (Fedora.) There are other differences, of course, but they are mostly cosmetic (e.g. where to place standard config files, or how to set up CRON jobs.)