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Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

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Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

#31
RHEL-derivatives (Scientific Linux, CentOS) for work since we deploy to RHEL for clients in production.

Mint 15 on my laptop

Switched my home desktop to Debian. Would want to switch my work laptop to Debian for longer term stability but not sure if all drivers are available (couldn't get Realtek HD SPDIF to work on my desktop). Can anyone with a Thinkpad T500 confirm that it works flawlessly?

Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

#32
Ubuntu - because I can find answers for just about any problem easily.

In the past we started with Redhat then Centos, that was back in the day of more simple RPM where you had to resolve dependencies manually. We were mainly using the unit as an internal LAMP and file server, nothing exotic.

After Ubuntu went into creating server versions we went that route. The on-line community was way more active and the package manager just worked.

Ubuntu is definitely a route of lower frustration when things go wrong.

Re: Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

#33

Wow, isn't this timely? I've been running Xubuntu. I've been feeling like it's a little overkill. It may be time to give Crunchbang a try.

Yep, #! is what I'll be using moving forward. My needs are basic: vim, terminator (default on #!), vagrant, and virtualbox. #! just stays out of the way and needed very little keybinding changes out of the box.
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