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Oh, wow. I'm running CentOS 8 on my home server. Anyone have any recomendations for a good, stable, home server OS?

Depending what exactly you want, CentOS is still a great choice, especially if you are also using the machine for more than set serving jobs. My understanding is, that CentOS will be exactly in the middle ground between Fedora and Red Hat. So it will be ahead of Red Hat a bit, which is a good thing if you want more current software versions. But not quite as cutting edge as Fedora. Personally, I am fully on Fedora for my development machine as I want current versions of software. I didn't have stability problems with it.

There seems to be also a (planned?) free version of Red Had, if you want complete stability and only security updates.

>My understanding is, that CentOS will be exactly in the middle ground between Fedora and Red Hat.

Not "exactly the middle ground", so much as

Fedora ---------------------------------------->> CentOS Stream -->> RHEL

At any given time CentOS Stream is only a couple months ahead of RHEL, that is not remotely true for Fedora.

Thanks, that means even more it still is a good choice for people who are more oriented towards the stable RHEL.

Debian's been a solid choice since the 1990s…

So good Ubuntu runs it

Assuming that CentOS stays dead, I'd probably recommend Ubuntu LTS.

I should probably give a look at openSuse...

Ubuntu server is pretty good.

For any regular server I’d recommend Debian. However, on my home server, I run Arch. It’s a pain with the upgrades, but I have access to all the latest and greatest software to tinker with. Which I feel is exactly what a home server is for. :-)

The only thing I had to build for myself was an Arch install ISO with ZFS included.

arch or freebsd. Ubuntu lts/debian depends on ur packages.

Freebsd isnt linux, but is great server OS.

I second this. FreeBSD is rock solid and extremely reliable (I have systems that are running on very old hardware and little memory, and still work fine). Arch can also pretty stable, if you actually know what you're doing and you're not doing anything serious with your server.

any Ubuntu LTS version!

debian-stable amd64

Any Ubuntu LTS version is solid.

Switch to the LTS kernel as well if you can, i.e. if your hardware does not need the HWE (Hardware Enablement) versions. The HWE kernels are mostly for newish laptops anyway and proper server hardware shouldn't need it.

Debian

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