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Discussion on: Linux distro you are using for development?

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Adarsh

I have used Debian and CentOS for servers. Some how I feel CentOS is better than Debian when it comes to servers. CentOS tries to emulate some of RedHat capabilities too. You can give it a try and you are right about Ubuntu definitely not a choice for running in servers so much bloatware.

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Curtis Maloney

For enterprisey stuff, I might consider RHEL or SLES, but I find generally they ship versions if things too out of date for my needs.

CentOS doesn't merely emulate RHEL, it is RHEL. Basically, they rebuild the packages, with all the branding changed, and the restricted features taken out. Even before they were taken over by RedHat. Check Section 9 of the CentOS 7 release notes: wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNot...

When I was building SANs, I used SLES, but mostly because of SuSE Studio.