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If you are completely new to linux, red hat may be a best bet, however there are 2 problems with red hat:
1. Red HAt 7.NO- red hat releases notoriously terrible distributions with its x.0 releases.
2. They also throw almost everything + the kitchen sink in the distribution. This can make for a lot of security holes if you are going to have it on the net.
Debian is known to be a hackers distribution- I personally haven't tried it, but most of the guy's i know that are into linux are running it.
1. Red HAt 7.NO- red hat releases notoriously terrible distributions with its x.0 releases.
2. They also throw almost everything + the kitchen sink in the distribution. This can make for a lot of security holes if you are going to have it on the net.
Debian is known to be a hackers distribution- I personally haven't tried it, but most of the guy's i know that are into linux are running it.
If you are going to have something that will be on the internet 24/7 I personally reccommend OpenBSD. Supposedly it is a bear to install. (If you have flaky hardware) It took me about 20 minutes to download it and install. The first time I tried to install it. The thing I like the most about it is the fact that you get a bare bones secure system. This way, you get to install what you need, and learn about the system. (Plus you can help try out deprecated's package manager.)
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