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!
How did you get a win 11 server license?
Probably BYOL?
So they will enable tpm in hypervisor? Also you can't disable telemetry completely or it may not update/broken shit and instability. How do they combat that?
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!
How did you get a win 11 server license?
Probably BYOL?
So they will enable tpm in hypervisor? Also you can't disable telemetry completely or it may not update/broken shit and instability. How do they combat that?
What's a Windows 11 server? Are they referring to desktop version of Windows 11 or Windows Server 2025? Also, if they are willing to go with windows, telemetry comes as a package. Just like using google account means your data is being sold to advertisers.
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.
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!
How did you get a win 11 server license?
Probably BYOL?
So they will enable tpm in hypervisor? Also you can't disable telemetry completely or it may not update/broken shit and instability. How do they combat that?
What's a Windows 11 server? Are they referring to desktop version of Windows 11 or Windows Server 2025? Also, if they are willing to go with windows, telemetry comes as a package. Just like using google account means your data is being sold to advertisers.
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!
How did you get a win 11 server license?
Probably BYOL?
So they will enable tpm in hypervisor? Also you can't disable telemetry completely or it may not update/broken shit and instability. How do they combat that?
This is correct. We have enabled swtpm in all of our hypervisors, which emulates a TPM for Windows 11/2025.
For Windows 11 licensing, the client would bring their own license, as we are not allowed to offer it under the Service Provider Licensing Agreement. Which, is silly... Microsoft needs to finally allow it. Not everyone wants to deal with a Server edition...
OS of choice?
MacOS is fine for what it is, but I find it annoying.
Qubes OS is WILD!
Arch has great documentation.
Debian is solid.
Void Linux is an interesting alternative.
I like hearing the AntiX dev rant. I also like lightweight desktops, so their distro is interesting to me.
Tiny Core Linux is cool.
FreeBSD seems to have the best driver support of the BSDs.
Love OpenSense!
I hope they decide not to cancel the Raspberry Pi Desktop OS (for AMD64 PC) -I thought it was nice.
I'm keeping my eye on Haiku: haiku-os.org
ReactOS would probably not be stuck in slow motion if someone could give them a few million euros.
I must say that I am really impressed with ZorinOS, which I have been using lately.
I just found out about 9front.org. Interesting.
TempleOS for prayer.
It does not matter what you do, you will never please everybody, so just support a few of the major distributions via templates and then let users upload their own isos if they want something else.
Netboot as someone mentioned is a nice solution that a lot of people appreciate, it will allow users to run less known distributions or even BSD if they want to but you do not have to maintain them.
@hornet said: OS of choice?
MacOS is fine for what it is, but I find it annoying.
Qubes OS is WILD!
Arch has great documentation.
Debian is solid.
Void Linux is an interesting alternative.
I like hearing the AntiX dev rant. I also like lightweight desktops, so their distro is interesting to me.
Tiny Core Linux is cool.
FreeBSD seems to have the best driver support of the BSDs.
Love OpenSense!
I hope they decide not to cancel the Raspberry Pi Desktop OS (for AMD64 PC) -I thought it was nice.
I'm keeping my eye on Haiku: haiku-os.org
ReactOS would probably not be stuck in slow motion if someone could give them a few million euros.
I must say that I am really impressed with ZorinOS, which I have been using lately.
I just found out about 9front.org. Interesting.
TempleOS for prayer.
Great list! Of those, we use TinyCore quite a bit! And I wish we could offer MacOS VMs.....
@rcy026 said:
It does not matter what you do, you will never please everybody, so just support a few of the major distributions via templates and then let users upload their own isos if they want something else.
Netboot as someone mentioned is a nice solution that a lot of people appreciate, it will allow users to run less known distributions or even BSD if they want to but you do not have to maintain them.
I think that is the idea we are moving to. Provide a library of all kinds of ISOs first, and then add the feature to allow the upload of their ISOs...
@serverpoint said: Great list! Of those, we use TinyCore quite a bit! And I wish we could offer MacOS VMs.....
Sorry if it is a silly question, what do you use Tiny Core Linux for?
We PXE boot TinyCore on each server that is not in use by a client and it runs a series of custom scripts, some of them every X minutes. These scripts report hardware information back to our APIs as well as power usage and other statistics and hardware diagnostics, including disk usage, wiping out disks, etc.
Some of these scripts also provide for the automated installation of operating systems. And many more uses... we keep adding some features here and there every year...
We also use it in some low power servers that are used as honeypots in our network, some are attached to temperature sensors, etc.
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?
@serverpoint If you're looking for a web hosting purpose, I would suggest going with AlmaLinux or RockyLinux OS both are stable, secure, and well-supported alternatives to CentOS, ideal for production environments.
However, if your goal is development, Debian would be the best choice. It offers excellent package management, long-term stability, and is widely used in development environments.
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How did you get a win 11 server license?
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Probably BYOL?
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
So they will enable tpm in hypervisor? Also you can't disable telemetry completely or it may not update/broken shit and instability. How do they combat that?
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What's a Windows 11 server? Are they referring to desktop version of Windows 11 or Windows Server 2025? Also, if they are willing to go with windows, telemetry comes as a package. Just like using google account means your data is being sold to advertisers.
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.
Probably WinSrv 2025
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
By default I just use ubuntu or ubuntu mnimal if resources are scarce
This is correct. We have enabled swtpm in all of our hypervisors, which emulates a TPM for Windows 11/2025.
For Windows 11 licensing, the client would bring their own license, as we are not allowed to offer it under the Service Provider Licensing Agreement. Which, is silly... Microsoft needs to finally allow it. Not everyone wants to deal with a Server edition...
OS of choice?
MacOS is fine for what it is, but I find it annoying.
Qubes OS is WILD!
Arch has great documentation.
Debian is solid.
Void Linux is an interesting alternative.
I like hearing the AntiX dev rant. I also like lightweight desktops, so their distro is interesting to me.
Tiny Core Linux is cool.
FreeBSD seems to have the best driver support of the BSDs.
Love OpenSense!
I hope they decide not to cancel the Raspberry Pi Desktop OS (for AMD64 PC) -I thought it was nice.
I'm keeping my eye on Haiku: haiku-os.org
ReactOS would probably not be stuck in slow motion if someone could give them a few million euros.
I must say that I am really impressed with ZorinOS, which I have been using lately.
I just found out about 9front.org. Interesting.
TempleOS for prayer.
It does not matter what you do, you will never please everybody, so just support a few of the major distributions via templates and then let users upload their own isos if they want something else.
Netboot as someone mentioned is a nice solution that a lot of people appreciate, it will allow users to run less known distributions or even BSD if they want to but you do not have to maintain them.
Great list! Of those, we use TinyCore quite a bit! And I wish we could offer MacOS VMs.....
I think that is the idea we are moving to. Provide a library of all kinds of ISOs first, and then add the feature to allow the upload of their ISOs...
Sorry if it is a silly question, what do you use Tiny Core Linux for?
We PXE boot TinyCore on each server that is not in use by a client and it runs a series of custom scripts, some of them every X minutes. These scripts report hardware information back to our APIs as well as power usage and other statistics and hardware diagnostics, including disk usage, wiping out disks, etc.
Some of these scripts also provide for the automated installation of operating systems. And many more uses... we keep adding some features here and there every year...
We also use it in some low power servers that are used as honeypots in our network, some are attached to temperature sensors, etc.
@serverpoint If you're looking for a web hosting purpose, I would suggest going with AlmaLinux or RockyLinux OS both are stable, secure, and well-supported alternatives to CentOS, ideal for production environments.
However, if your goal is development, Debian would be the best choice. It offers excellent package management, long-term stability, and is widely used in development environments.
Hope this helps!
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