Server OS ideas?

[battletoad]

I'm looking to run a server in an academic department. I've been using ubuntu 10.04 on a few, but there's always these tiny problems which crop up (most notably vnc issues).

It should:
1. be relatively stable. Long uptimes since it'll be a backup server as well as a licensing server.
2. potential solutions to whichever random idea i get in my head should be (easily) googlable.

Thats all i ask for. Any ideas?

 

[InterGalacticSpook]

Yo,
http://www.keycruncher.com/blog/2008/07/07/vnc-vs-nomachine-nx-nomachine-wins-hands-down/

I stick with RHL flavors, primarily Fedora, slowly moving production severs to Centos

Hope it helps,
Igs

 

[ozziej]

Yup. I agree, always used RedHat Derivatives. Never had trouble with them. Always found the debian based distros quite painful, there are always issues with getting software to compile and finding precompiled stuff.
Stick with Fedora or CentOS

 

[floomby]

VNC - you're doing it wrong ;-) SSH ftw

I would use Ubuntu Server 11.10 if you want updates until 2013-04 or Ubuntu Server 10.04 if you want updates until 2015...

 

[avert]

scientific linux seems promising, if you cant handle the insane times it takes for centos to release updates

 

[macxsanity]

+1 for Centos

 

[GreGorGy]

I use ClearOS (purpose-built) which is CentOS-based. Dunno about licensing server.

 

[MickZA]

scientific linux seems promising, if you cant handle the insane times it takes for centos to release updates

I tried Scientific Linux 6 on a couple of servers earlier this year because of the delays in the release of CentOS 6, no major problems but I moved back to CentOS as the community support seems stronger.

 

[battletoad]

thanks for the info. Will be looking at CentOS, throw it in a VM and test it out.

Hope its not too far different from Ubuntu. But if it has terminal/konsole, there shouldn't be real worries

 

[ponder]

Use Debian Squeeze or something like ClearOS.

 

[Nephew_]

RHEL or Slackware

 

[w1z4rd]

I'm looking to run a server in an academic department. I've been using ubuntu 10.04 on a few, but there's always these tiny problems which crop up (most notably vnc issues).

It should:
1. be relatively stable. Long uptimes since it'll be a backup server as well as a licensing server.
2. potential solutions to whichever random idea i get in my head should be (easily) googlable.

Thats all i ask for. Any ideas?

ClearOS

This might also appeal to you: http://www.edubuntu.org/