Most stable OS ?
 

Hi there
im goin to order new server and these are OS setup options

1. Fedora core
2. CentOS enterprise linux
3. Debian
4. FreeBSD

Im just runnin a major vBulletin forum with ~130k members, ~100 k daily unique visits and more than 1500 concurrent online users with 3000 at peak over lighttpd/fastcgi

is there any major difference in server stability and performances and security bewteen RH linux based OS with *BSD or Debian??

They will all serve you well, regardless of which you choose. Although I (personally) prefer a RHEL-based variant, such as CentOS mainly because I am most familiar with it.

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Another vote for RHEL from myself.

Well, for the most part the ones you listed are all stable, its a matter of optimization and the ability to compile programs, with a RPM based system, you wont have that option, as rh or centos the rh ripoff use rpms, so unless you know how to build your own rpms or use custom rpms from other places or you know how to compile programs from source, you will be limited to whats on/off in stuff like php, were as rh/centos turn on a bunch of crap you dont need to use to run a vb site.

To fully optimize the server OS and its programs and get the most out of it, rh/centos is not the way to go, if you want to get the most bang for your buck.

But out of all the ones you listed, id have to go with debian or bsd.

I myself prefer Gentoo and its own package manager, highly optimized out of the box and one of the easier managers as it makes use of a make file to set flags.

I'd have to pick centos or rehl. I compile everything myself. I don't use rpms very often.
Don't get me wrong all those listed are stable and capable of handling very large boards. But when it comes down to it I like to manage my server with a form of red hat. I've been using red hat since 1997.

Now if I were to pick a desktop os it would be a debian based distro. :-)

Most systems I had were installed on CentOS and I didnt have any problems!

I once had 2 servers running on Fedora, and there was always something buggin!

i vote CentOS

I personally perfer FreeBSd as it tends to be the fastests OS and is just as stable as the others.

CentOS, my host was using it on their shared server and I am now using it on my vps.

Debian & Fedora for my self, used them two for years cant go wrong there :)