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Just move to Ubuntu / Debian it's the logical choice here. Ubuntu is already the #1 distro on server, it will consolidate that poistion even more.


Can you back that number up?

In my corner of the world Ubuntu plays no role at all on servers. It's all CentOS/RHEL here.


Ubuntu is by far the most used Linux distro on server, the problem with CentOS / RHEL is they did not support recent kernel for a long time, so you see very few cloud servers with those distro, especially since Docker / Kubernetes took off. Also RHEL is not free so there is no way it's "popular" outside of very enterprise needs ( HPC ect ... ).

At previous work they moved away from CentOS to use Ubuntu because libc was just to old, actually everything was old.


I'd actually be interested to see those numbers. Do you have any evidence to support that claim?

It'd be very interesting for us in terms of priorising supported distros. A bit of googling didn't lead to much.

You could be biased by your own job/experience. Most IT doesn't run on the Cloud or in Kubernetes (yet).


https://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition

Those are numbers for EC2 so a fairly accurate measurement.


Those are the number of images, not the number of instances.




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