Hi all,
I'm sure this comes up every so often.
I'm in the process of repurposing an older desktop machine I have lying around and turning it into a NAS. I would like to do as little system administration as possible once it is set up. I would like relatively recent packages too, but I do NOT want to use a rolling release system.
I haven't decided on which distribution to use. My top three choices:
1. Debian Stable (presently 9.2)
2. Ubuntu LTS (presently 16.04, soon will be 18.04)
3. Others
Debian Stretch was recently released, and so the packages are newer than what's found in Ubuntu 16.04. However, Ubuntu 18.04 is just around the corner and will contain newer packages than Debian Stretch.
Anoption is also to install Ubuntu 17.10, upgrade to 18.04 in April, and keep it on the LTS path going forward, but I feel that could be a recipe for disaster. Not terribly comfortable with running non-LTS Ubuntu on this machine, though.
I'm most comfortable with Debian-based distros, but I'm open to using other distros if they do the job well, such as CentOS, OpenSUSE, and the like. I'm open to using a BSD (like FreeNAS) if it does the job and my hardware works for it.
What's everyone's experiences? For my use case, what is the preference?
Cheers,
-Matt---------------------------------------------------
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