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Linux as a home server

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by naelcma

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Can anyone point me in the direction of which linux distro to use as a home server primarily to use as a backup storage repository?

I have no experience in linux but I wish to use this instead of Windows Home Server (I have used this without any problems in a trial format).

Many thanks in advance.

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by maniacman

My personal favorite is RedHat, but you can go with Mandrake, Ubuntu, Suse, FreeBSD, and many more than I can recall to name. They're usually free to download and you can burn the ISO images straight onto blank CD-R discs and run the install.

by adelacuesta

There are several Linux os' out there. I had loaded Ubuntu since you can boot from the cd without installing anything and 'feel' the os. You need to load/add networking features that you wanted. I haven't tried the others since I am very much satisfied with this one.

If you select the server version, you need further reading since this one is only command line interface and not GUI.

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