Re: [Rails] Best Linux Distro for Rails App?

Robert wrote:

After a bad experience trying to get even the simplest Rails application running at Lunarpages, I'm moving to Slicehost. Does anyone have an opinion as to which of their Linux distros to use for a fairly high-traffic Rails site? They offer CentOS, Debian 5, Fedora (10 to 12), Gentoo, Red Hat EL 5, and Ubuntu (8 and 9).  While we're on the subject, does anyone have any opinions as to the relative merits of Slicehost versus Amazon WS?  Thanks!    

I would choose based on my own knowledge and experience with the various distributions.  You will be managing it yourself so you will have to know how the system handles things and this range of systems have a variety of ways of configuring subsystems managing the details of a computer.  Personally I would probably go with Ubuntu but that is because I have more documentation on that system and a fair amount of experience with the management of those systems.

The kernel and most of the utilities will be about the same but how system admin works is a big variable.