As a valued customer of Contabo you have access to a variety of different Linux distributions, for use on all of our servers. These can be easily and automatically installed via our powerful customer control panel, which results in various benefits for our customers:
– Contabo always provides the latest versions for installation on all servers.
– You can conveniently and comfortably choose and switch between the offered Linux distributions at any time.
– All Linux distributions are offered free of any costs or fees.
– From the beginner towards the enthusiast, up to commercial professional use, all requirements can be met with the distributions offered by Contabo.
CentOS:
CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is maintained by an open group of voluntary developers, which take care of maintenance and development. As opposed to RHEL, you can use this operating system without mandatory support contracts and free of charge.
WHMs cPanel is developed for this operating system in particular, which makes this Linux distribution a must have for resellers. As an enterprise operating system it is developed with stability and long-term maintenance cycles in mind. All CentOS versions can be used for 10 years without the need to migrate packages and software versions, which makes it an ideal solution for commercial use.
Debian:
Debian is another Linux distribution that is composed completely of free software, most of which is under the GNU General Public License.
Long term support was first introduced with version 7 for almost all available software packages that use the architectures i386 and AMD64 (32bit- and 64bit-PC-systems). The Debian Project aims to provide 5 years long-term support with security and bug fixes for all versions from 7 upwards. This Linux distribution has access to online repositories that contain over 50,000 software packages, making it one of the largest software compilations available. Debian officially contains only free software, but non-free software can be downloaded and installed as well if needed. This makes it a valid solution for commercial use, as well as a versatile operating system for the regular user.
Ubuntu:
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that is strongly based on and influenced by Debian. The goal of the developers was to create an operating system that is as easy to use as possible. It is one of the most commonly used distributions available today. The development team also releases long term support versions of Ubuntu, which are indicated by “LTS” at the end of the version number.
OpenSUSE:
The focus of its development is creating usable open source tools for developers and administrators, while providing a user friendly desktop and server environment. A unique feature of this distribution is its specialized installation and configuration tool YaST (“Yet another Setup Tool“), which is a central administrative tool for the OpenSUSE operating system. It also helps finding new software and packages for the OpenSUSE distribution.
https://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page
Fedora:
Compared to other Linux distributions, Fedora does not aim for long term support. The life cycle of a Fedora version is 13 months only. Every 6 months a new version is released by the development team. Owing to this circumstance, Fedora is not suited for long-term usage on systems.
On the other hand, you have always access to the latest software developments available. Being state of the art has never been this comfortable. Enthusiasts that are eager to try out the latest developments on the market should always consider using Fedora.