by CyberCastaway » Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:19 pm
That really depends on what it needs to be used for. I would say generally speaking Ubuntu is the most versatile, but newer versions of Ubuntu I would not upgrade to at this point. OpenSuse is very good, especially as a web server. For a server that needs to process a large amount of data Ubuntu Server is best because you work entirely on the command line and resources aren't being used up by a GUI unless you need to launch one. I rather like Fedora, but have more experience in Debian-based distributions. But, hey they're all good, but I always had to laugh at the ones like Skinny Puppy and worse yet Tiny Linux. I know they are good for making use of really old computers, but what can you really do with only that?