Ok i'm changing the server and have a hard time to decide with wich os to go ?

RH9
Fedora Core 1
fedora Core 2
Free BSD

Can any 1 point some light.

RH9 is widely supported and will continue to have patches released through the fedora legacy project. Fedora Core 1 is also nicely supported and gets regular updates. Unless you need something specifically in the 2.6 kernel, I'd hold off on FC2 for now and let it mature a bit.

BSD is another animal entirely, and I'm a linux guy, so I'll hold off on comment.

I would say RH9 or FC1 will do just fine. Just make sure you keep up to date on the patches.

I would actually recommend FreeBSD. It's a very stable OS and should get the job done for whatever you plan to use the server for.

Originally posted by HstCreations
I would actually recommend FreeBSD. It's a very stable OS and should get the job done for whatever you plan to use the server for.
I'm a linux guy myself, and i have to say, FreeBSD is a very solid OS, along with OpenBSD.

Are you using a control panel? Because this will greatly decide which OS to run.

freeBSD is pretty solid, but im not all of the suden interested on how RedHat9 has new security updates through the Fedora community and will wanna check it out to get my system more up to par

gilbert

I would say freebsd or fedora core 2.

Which control panel if any another decision you should make. If you are familiar with linux then freebsd is going to be bit different.

RH9 or fedora 1

You may want to check out CentOS, its a rebuild of RHEL source, which means its RHEL but without the support and price tag. Web site: http://www.centos.org

We've switched almost all our legacy redhat machines to centos and absolutely love it!

Edit:
You may also want to check out these other RHEL rebuilds:
http://www.taolinux.org
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org ( not recommended, slow release of updates )

My money is with FreeBSD.. SOLID - STABLE & SECURE (more than the others, at least)!

fedora core 1

I also recommend CentOS

Wow...I bought a ded server for my site for the first time, and I had FreeBSD installed on it. I see the replies and I am quite happy that I went the right way ;)

Got fedora 2 a few days ago. Had no c compiler. Tried hard but wasn't able to to install a compiler.

Now I am back to RH9. I'd recommend to stay away from fedora 2 if you are used to RH9

FreeBSD 4.9/4.10

if linux I reccomend gentoo

definitely FreeBSD, its disgustingly stable.

I'd first consider which OS you are most comfortable with ( bsd or linux ) and then try and make the decision from that, based on which one will serve your needs best.

I'd go with Fedora Core 1

I'm useing it now and its nice

FreeBSD is a little easier to install packages from the shell. Instead of searching thru sites for the rpm, downloading it, then installing it ., freebsd's port system allows you to download sourcecode from the webpages and compiles it and installs it so it runs better on your machine and is in its entirety.

I also hear freebsd is more secure than redhat.

As far as DYI project docs are concerned, redhat > freebsd, as far as accesibility to software, freebsd > redhat,.

What i mean by this is if you go google.com, there is a large linux documentation project with how-tos everywhere. FreeBSD has some, but its null compared the the LDP (Linux Documentation Project)

I have to wave the FreeBSD 5.x flag since I love it to bits. I've never been fond of Redhat I'm afraid.

I use RH9 for gaming servers and i use fedora for cpanel/whm. I find they are both very stable and i have not had many incidents where ive had downtime or a hard time with them.

Pick the one you are intimately familiar with.

Mac OS 10 Server :D

Has a FreeBSD subsystem, nice GUI tools, great hardware.

Go with CentOs