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I currently use Media Temple for hosting and despite their “problems” with their gs hosting… I think they are a good choice for my needs. But never mind who to choose for hosting.

I was curious to know everyones pros/cons on the best Linux OS for ExpressionEngine? So please post your pros/cons here on your favorite Linux OS.

I don’t think it makes any difference whatsoever. I have used EE on RHEL, OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, even some BSD variants (NetBSD, FreeBSD) and there was very relatively little difference, and none as far as EE was concerned: you need a web server, MySQL, and PHP—and every modern distro offers that. The rest boils down to matters of personal preference.

Thats why I am asking, the only distro I have really used is Ubuntu. I was just curious to see what others think.

Ah, so you want to discuss Linux flavors in general? Sure, I just move this over to The Lounge.

I use Ubuntu for my personal EE sites. Works great and easy to get up and running.

I can live with Redhat/CentOS or even Fedora, but I much prefer Debian. I’ve tried hard to like Ubuntu, but after running into too many issues I’m not going to touch it again.

Debian’s official releases have some things about their PHP environment that would make me choose another distro unless I were comfortable manually patching things and modifying the PHP environment.  The latter is trivial, but the former is not, so it depends how much you want to just use a distro out-of-the-box.

We use FreeBSD on our servers for most of hosting. It doesn’t do anything particularly pretty but its very stable.

My chosen distro vs any other distro.

Pro: I already know all about it.

Con: I’m always curious about other distros.

Just stick with what you already know and you are comfortable with.  Moving from one distro to another is a great waste of time.