Debian allows for a more custom-feel for stability. There's debian (stable, long-term support and not), debian (testing), debian (experimental).

I'm, personally, an Archlinux user which is a rolling distro, so I tend to be more bleeding edge than most people care to be. Manjaro is an Arch derivative that is more stable, but it's also catered more to a desktop environment.

CentOS is basically just 3 to 8 year old Fedora, so that might give you a more familiar environment.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:

Why not just add the updated repositories (like EPEL)? I'd personally stay on CentOS. They have a much slower update cycle. They back port all security updates.
I'd personally choose Ubuntu/Debian because of all of the support on the net (i.e. from Digital Ocean, etc).

Have you thought about using something like Cpanel to manage your server?

Eric

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have been on CentOS 6.x for a while. And before that it was 5.x... I support a Drupal install and CentOS just does not keep up very well. CenOS 6.x is running PHP 5.3 which is no longer supported. I understand RedHat maintained PHP during the O/S life cycle. At several points that was not enough.

I'm pondering another distro that is a little more current and still stable. This is to run Drupal on. Any suggestions? I'm looking at Ubuntu as a potential distro.

Thanks in advance and I am not trying to start a flame war.

Keith

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