Tech question

[Scary Guy]

Open source preferably but whatever is fine just so long as it's not Windows. Also it must run on generic i386 architecture.

So anyhow I'm upgrading OpenBSD (best OS for out of the box security) and I screwed something up and now I can't SSH in (so it's either not starting or just not letting me SSH, either way I'm screwed). I was trying to go from 4.2 to 4.3 and then 4.4 after which I wanted to set up a mail/web server then webmail and an e-mail list server with a few other things... Unix is great but it's so simple it takes a genius to use it (and I'm still learning).

What I want to know is what is your favorite server for ease of use and stability. I could have left the server as it was and it would have been fine for years probably but I just HAD to screw with it. My lesson is a trip to n00bville since I didn't even get a quarter of the way through the 4.3 install (what I was doing wasn't recommended anyway but was the only way to do it via remote SSH).

Any thoughts?

[torn asunder]

dood, sorry - only server software i've ever trainined in was novell netware. i did like it, though, but i'm sure that's not what you're looking for.

sorry...

[sexslavetrainer]

CentOS

[Scary Guy]

CentOS

Any specific reason? I always heard it was good for clusters, which would be great if I wanted to set up a cluster (which I do, but not for my webserver since I'm lucky I get to keep one box there).

[Azeuron]

ubuntu tons of support and its free

[sexslavetrainer]

Any specific reason? I always heard it was good for clusters, which would be great if I wanted to set up a cluster (which I do, but not for my webserver since I'm lucky I get to keep one box there).

Stability. I run a cluster of web servers on CentOS, with WHM and Cpanel, that has had 100% uptime for over a year.

[Shade Everdark]

Ugh. I loathe Netware. Archaic, arcane piece of crap. Or maybe that's just the setup they have at my place of employment.

Otherwise, I've really only had experience with Solaris 10 and Windows Server 2003, and Solaris was the worst, most difficult piece of garbage ever, so 2003 it is.

And I've played around with Ubuntu, RedHat, and a little bit with Gentoo (but only in a workstation capacity), so I know Linux/Unix does not have to be that way.