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Tag Archives: distro
Modernizing your ancient server distro
RimuHosting has now been providing VM servers for over 15 years. Back in the day the state of the art distros we setup for customers included 32-bit Debian 3- and Ubuntu 6-based servers. Things have moved on. By default all … Continue reading
Picking Your Distro
We frequently get questions asking which distribution to choose. The short answer is - pick whatever distribution you're currently using if it's one that you like and are comfortable using. :) It's not going to make a tremendous difference at … Continue reading