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10 Most Popular Open Source Linux Server Distros COVERSTORY 10 MOST POPULAR OPEN SOURCE LINUX SERVER DISTROS Here we feature the absolutely top notch Linux Server distros that help you save a lot on licensing and maintenance costs - Raj Kumar Maurya Ubuntu server Ubuntu Server brings economic and technical scalability Linux is now everywhere from your phones to the to your datacenter, public or private. Whether you want to high-end server. It is hot even in data center servers. deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Hadoop cluster or a 50,000- Linux server is not only Open Source but also saves your node render farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value licensing and maintenance costs. But if you are a startup, scale-out performance available. Ubuntu Advantage is the commercial support package from Canonical, oering it’s quite natural to have confusion while choosing right ecient systems administration software, fast problem Linux server to handle your business tasks. We know most resolution and access to experts when you need them. One of the people would opt Ubuntu, Centos and Red Hat of the major Ubuntu advantages is the Landscape systems as their Server operating system but there is also some management tool. You can automate, updates and manage other Linux Server operating systems are available those physical, virtual and cloud-based systems from a single are worth to try. Here are some top ten server operating interface. It’s easy to set up, easy to use and requires no system for you hardcore IT. special hardware. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes military-grade security technologies—from network rewall control to secure containers for application isolation—to prevent intrusions and protect your data. With the Product Security Team’s support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can safely deploy apps across physical, virtual and cloud environments. RHEL is based on the community-driven Fedora, which Red Hat sponsors. Fedora is updated more frequently than RHEL and serves as more of a bleeding-edge Linux distro in terms of features and technology, but it doesn’t oer the stability or the length and quality of commercial support that RHEL is renowned for. 46 PCQUEST NOVEMBER 2016 pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Debian SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Power Systems, you Debian remains a popular option for those who value gain the benets of the latest generation of Enterprise Linux stability over the latest features. The latest major stable OS with the power and reliability of IBM hardware. This version of Debian, Debian is 8.6 “Jessie” and will support combination provides the performance and exibility to run for ve years. the most demanding business-critical workloads. Debian 8 marks the switch to the system init system Similar to how Red Hat’s RHEL is based on the open- over the old SysVinit init system and includes the latest source Fedora distribution, SLES is based on the open-source releases of the Linux Kernel, Apache, LibreOce, Perl, OpenSUSE Linux distro, with SLES focusing on stability and Python, Xen Hypervisor, GNU Compiler Collection and support over leading-edge features and technologies. the GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. Oracle Linux CentOS Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux) is Red Hat CentOS is a low-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux server and Enterprise Linux fortied with Oracle’s own special Kool-Aid if you operate a website through a web hosting company, as well as various Oracle logos and art added in. there’s a very good chance your web server is powered by Optimized for Oracle’s database services, Oracle Linux is CentOS Linux. a heavy contender in the enterprise Linux market. If you run CentOS has largely operated as a community-driven Oracle databases and want to run them on Linux, you know project that used the RHEL code and has not possess and the drill: Call Oracle. trademark of REHL. This Linux server OS available for free use and distribution. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] NOVEMBER 2016 PCQUEST 47 COVERSTORY ClearOS Arch Linux ClearOS is an open-source Linux operating system based Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686/x86-64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux used. It is basically a network general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution that strives to management server that combines a server, network and provide the latest stable versions of most software by gateway platform. It ensures all of your internet connections following a rolling-release model. The default installation is are used and managed appropriately. Keep your Users in a minimal base system, congured by the user to only add check by applying bandwidth rules that apply to users or what is purposely required. groups. There are two editions of ClearOS one is HOME and Arch Linux is a general-purpose distribution. Upon other is Bussiness editon. It oers VM support XFS and BTRFS installation, only a command-line environment is provided: Filesystem support, a new Dynamic Dashboard, VPN system, rather than tearing out unneeded and unwanted packages, streamlined Theme system and more. the user is oered the ability to build a custom system by choosing among thousands of high-quality packages provided in the ocial repositories. Mageia / Mandriva Slackware Mageia is an open-source-based fork of Mandriva. It has Slackware Linux is a complete multitasking “UNIX-like” many programs known as Drakes or Draks, collectively named system available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. A drakxtools, to congure many dierent settings. Examples full installation gives you the X Window System, C/C++ include MouseDrake to set up a mouse, DiskDrake to set development environments, Perl, networking utilities, a up disk partitions and drakconnect to set up a network mail server, a news server, a web server, an FTP server, the connection. GNU Image Manipulation Program, Mozilla Firefox, plus many more programs. 48 PCQUEST NOVEMBER 2016 pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected].
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