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?
how common is ubuntu on servers?
Much more common than is should be.
I’ve run Ubuntu servers for over a decade in some very large and demanding environments and have had so few issues with the OS itself.
Lemmy has a hate boner for Canonical, and Ubuntu, but the reality is this is an echo chamber. Ubuntu has been run in basically every corner of the globe for some of the most critical work human kind has, and it could be so easily swapped for Debian. But it isn’t.
At my workplace 95% is running ubuntu. Those servers that doesn’t, are running crappy Microsoft server, and those are just because the applications weren’t yet running on linux, but everything does now, so I gues they will switch to ubuntu very shortly.
interesting, i had no idea
People shit on it but there’s a lot of good open-source tooling that supports it.
There are nist l1 profiles
Tutorials and guides for everything
etc
Part of being a good sysadmin is knowing when not to reinvent the wheel. Ubuntu has a lot of options for vetted, hardened, “other people’s wheels.”
Also, for posterity, the competent ones are running the headless, server version of Ubuntu. (As opposed to the bloated mess that is Ubuntu Desktop). The server version catches a lot of flack it doesn’t deserve.
i didn’t shit on it, i am on kubuntu rn. i just never heard of it being a thing in the server world.
It is the biggest os server wise in the world. Everything on aws runs ubuntu as well. Any SaaS is ubuntu. You cannot get around it datacenter or SaaS wise.