Im setting up a server on an old desktop (for hosting whatever

Just install ubuntu server, you sound technically illiterate.

debian

anime

>>61392550
literate enough to know I dont want ubuntu serer

>>61392869
Illiterate enough to be unaware of the differences between it and debian

What would you want take out of Ubuntu Server to make it less "bloated"?

>ubuntu server
>bloated
come again sweetie?

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Gentoo ffs

>>61393488
>solarized dark
>vomittinganimegirl.apng

>>61393488
Never rolling release for servers

>>61392536
whoever built that seat, hates himself

>>61395630
^ Loves*

CentOS

>>61392536
I use Alpine.

>>61394185
retard detected
nothing wrong with rolling release

>>61397564
Rolling release is manageable for a small number of servers as long as you stay on top of updates and carefully read release notes.

With Gentoo in particular, dependency issues tend to crop up over time which take a lot of manual effort to correct, especially since every system ends up slightly different. If you put off updates for too long, you potentially lose your upgrade path.

When I started my current job (last year), we had a mostly Gentoo environment, which had been built in 2004(?) and not patched since 2008. Upgrading would have required intermediate stages which have been lost to time. We had to completely scrap them and migrate to new services, which would have been a lot easier if they had been RHEL/CentOS 4 boxes, since the differences between releases are well documented and things don't change too much within a release.

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