So... what are your operating systems of choice?
serverpoint
Hosting Provider
At ServerPoint, updating templates and testing them is quite a time consuming task.
We are looking to simplify our lives.
We just added AlmaLinux/RockyLinux/CentOS Stream 10... but on top of that, we also maintain:
AlmaLinux 8.x x64
AlmaLinux 9.x x64
CentOS 9 Stream x64
CentOS 7.x x64
Debian 11.3 x64
Debian 12.x x64
Rocky Linux 8.x x64
Rocky Linux 9.x x64
Rocky Linux 10.x x64
Ubuntu 20.04 x64 LTS
Ubuntu 22.04 x64 LTS
Ubuntu 24.04 x64 LTS
Windows 10 Professional x64
Windows 2008 R2 Standard x64
Windows 2012 R2 Standard x64
Windows 2016 Standard x64
Windows 2019 Standard x64
Windows 2022 Standard x64
Windows 2025 Standard x64
But we also maintain older ones; they don't appear in our portal, but they are available. We always get a client here and there that asks for one of these:
CentOS 5, 6 and 8
Debian 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
Fedora 18 to 33
Ubuntu LTS 10.04 to 18.04
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 8
What would be your top choices for Linux and Windows, if you use Windows?
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Debian 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
Fedora 18 to 33
Ubuntu LTS 10.04 to 18.04
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 8
What good can come from giving someone an ancient, unsupported, insecure OS?
debian thanks
We have a few large clients (especially government) that have some custom software that only compiles in X or Z version of some older version of an OS...
In cases like that, the OS is provided fully firewalled for the customer.
Why not just stick a ISO installer and call it a day? Let the customer bring their own OS.
Never make the same mistake twice. There are so many new ones to make.
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hmm yeah, not a bad idea. I guess in that case, we would pass on the effort to the client if they want to use something old. We can just make the ISOs available in our system in some pull down menu...
Yep. Support the latest and most common ones, and let the client do their own obscure OS install by ISO. Maybe even let them upload their own ISO to your system temporarily (like for 48 hours or so) if they need specialized ISOs. See which ever is easiest on you.
Never make the same mistake twice. There are so many new ones to make.
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right.
where https://boot.netboot.xyz/ipxe/netboot.xyz.iso ?
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
I had never seen that before! So many amazing projects out there... we are going to download it in the near future and play with it. Thanks!
No BSD?
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It works fine on "some" installations. When I tried it on my dedicated server last time, it detected the ethernet card but wasn't able to get a IP. Even manually assigning a IP did not work... They should update their kernel to someone less ancient or add more hardware support.
Never make the same mistake twice. There are so many new ones to make.
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right.
Solaris 10
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Automation is amazing.
For NanoKVM I have a script, that builds templates, I just download it and boot a test VM.
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Arch & nixos would be fun, but perfectly happy with debian too
Windows 3.11 - as it has network support and a modern GUI for day to day work.
Debian/Ubuntu - for the normal stuff
FreeBSD for whatever related to routing
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Debian/Ubuntu
Debian installed manually via ISO with the xfs file system.
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Debian stable for life
Where's Windows 11 ?
vps9hostname is available. affbrrMy distribution of choice is Debian, but I also like to use Alpine Linux for some lightweight stuff. It's often missing from provider templates.
+1 yeah where is it??
Is it anything to do with why they don’t allow custom isos or boyl
For web hosting AlmaLinux is perfect
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Debian
AlmaLinux
Rocky Linux
Roughly in that order
You know, maybe it's time we support it... we have received a few requests here and there. Maybe it would attract more BSD clients...
Ahh Solaris... that brings good memories to my old college days... also IRIX, back in the days of Silicon Graphics workstations...
Proxmox Backup Server
I actually like NIX a lot... maybe we can at least provide the ISO built into our portal...> @yoursunny said:
The obstacle was just preparing our hypervisors to provide TPM emulation... but that upgrade is almost done...
We'll have Windows 11 in the system soon.
So many memories on the computer at my dad's job. The first one I ever used.
We'd like to update that we just added Windows 11 to our platform as of today.
We hope to be able to post some great at LES soon!