I don't have a recommendation on a specific distribution -- that's really a matter of personal taste and experience. However, try to go with a free-tier instance until you really need to upgrade. There are only certain images that can be used with that free-tier. It's a pretty good deal! I've used both Amazon's CentOS based Distribution and Ubuntu on it -- I prefer Ubuntu, coming from a Debian backend. CentOS has quite a bit of a server community as well, though.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Joey Espinosa <jlouis.espin...@gmail.com>wrote: > No, Gentoo is not a variant of Debian. > > I also don't think there are variants that are for "hardcore" users more > than others. If you're "hardcore", then you should be able to do things > like write your own kernel modules and perform low-level disk operations no > matter the distro. > > I personally love Ubuntu on EC2. The ami/ec2 tools are in the repository > by default, and are updated regularly. If you use the official AMIs from > Canonical, then you'll get a setup that is optimized for EC2 without you > having to do anything extra (for instance, "byobu" runs automatically when > you connect via SSH). > > In the end, it all really depends on you. As Casey mentioned, you are > probably better off with what you're already familiar with. After all, what > good is the "best" OS if you're more familiar with the "good enough" OS? > You'll be more productive with what you are comfortable managing. I'm > familiar with many distros (certified in Red Hat & Solaris, and long time > Gentoo user), but I go with Ubuntu on EC2 every time. > > Hope this helped. > > -- > Joey "JoeLinux" Espinosa > Software Developer > http://about.me/joelinux > On Nov 13, 2011 7:10 PM, "Casey Greene" <csgre...@princeton.edu> wrote: > >> I would suggest that you use whatever your sysadmin (or if no sysadmin, >> developer (or if it's just you, you)) are most familiar with. I assume the >> packages that you are using (at least the ones you've listed) will be in >> the package management systems for any of the distros that you have listed. >> >> I'm also pretty sure that gentoo is not a variant of debian. >> >> Casey >> >> On 11/13/2011 03:58 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: >> >>> The main difference with Ubuntu is that it's a binary distribution >>> (pre-compiled binaries for a standardized platform). I use Gentoo, >>> personally, which is a variant of Debian with "portage" rather than >>> "apt". LAMP server stuff is readily available on all distros of Linux. >>> If you're hardcore then use Gentoo. If you're medium-core then use >>> Debian. If you're softcore then use Ubuntu. If you like RedHat style >>> more than Debian, then go CentOS. Whichever you choose, you'll >>> immediately need to familiarize yourself with it's package manager and >>> how things are done on that platform. good luck :-) >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM, ydjango <neerash...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:neerash...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I am setting up nginex, apache, python django, mysql based application >>> on EC2. I expect high web traffic and high mysql query usage. Mysql >>> and web server will on seperate servers. >>> >>> Which linux distro should I use for heavy production use - Ubuntu, >>> Centos or Debian? >>> >>> Does it matter? >>> >>> I see most instructions on web is using Ubuntu and it seems it is >>> considered easiest to set up. But I read somewhere that Ubuntu is not >>> for server use. 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