Preferred version of Linux?

Hi,

Up until now we've always run apache on Sun machines, but now want to
explore what linux may have to offer. But where do I start, are there
any clear favourites out there? Suse, RH, etc?

Any recommendations as to what's good as a production web-server
hardware wise would be very helpful too.

Thanks

Nog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Up until now we've always run apache on Sun machines, but now want to
> explore what linux may have to offer. But where do I start, are there
> any clear favourites out there? Suse, RH, etc?
>
> Any recommendations as to what's good as a production web-server
> hardware wise would be very helpful too.
>
> Thanks

begun the flame wars have.

I've used fedora(power and security) and ubuntu(debian- for its ease
and userbase) with great success, but if you like unix go for
freeBSD(userbase, but some say netBSD for those connections under
load). In my experience you will end up looking at graphs of net versus
free and so on... before you eventually settle on one because you like
it. I did try openBSD but I won't tell you how many hairs I lost.