Which distribution to use? RHEL, CentOS, SuSE, FC, FreeBSD, Debian?

[newbie1]

Which Linux distribution you recommend and why?

[breun]

We use CentOS because it's free, because it has a long support lifecycle (7 years instead of for instance 13 months for Fedora), because Atomic Rocket Turtle (http://www.atomicrocketturlte.com/) supports it and because we like Red Hat-style Linux distributions.

[atomicturtle]

CentOS, for all the reasons described above. RHEL/CentOS is the most widely supported distro you'll find by both the community, and commercial companies.

[swardell]

CentOS and RHEL (same thing, choice is based on support level required)