On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:41:13 +0100 Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi to all members of this list, > > I'm not new to linux and I'm searching a good stable distro for > server. Many said CentOS and other Debian but really I have not > enough experiences to choose one. > > So, I know this is a debian list and could be obtain biased opinion > but what are better point to use debian on a server instead of CentOS? > A difference which may be significant to you is that Debian stable can always be upgraded in place to the next major version, while even now I think the advice with CentOS is a fresh installation. Depending on your application software this may or may not be smooth and easy (e.g. the last stable dropped support for PHP 5, needing a fair bit of website maintenance, but that's not a Debian issue), but the basic OS should upgrade without problems. -- Joe
