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01-25-2018

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This is the old Chevy vs. Ford argument. Not to be rude, but really, this isn't the most constructive question. I can understand wanting some help picking your Linux, but the truth is there are many great distros to choose from, and there is no one that is the best for everyone using it for virtualizing servers or anything else.

There is a certain distro I am partial to, but when I read about why people prefer certain other distros, I always am impressed by the good reasons they have. I believe there is no correct answer to your question.

I think those disclaimers are important, but now I am going to tell you why I run Debian virtual machines. Debian came to me as rumor. same as God, Heaven, and Hell. People seemed to say Debian was really stable. I started with another distro and that is how I found out what people mean by "Debian is really stable." At first I thought I wanted something more cutting edge.

Let me tell you what I like most when it comes to my servers: forget about them I want then always on and running like electricity. Every second I have to put into making my server work is a second I could devote instead ti a task that makes me money. No one pays me to run my servers. They pay me to make the software I make on my servers.

You know how system updates have habit of breaking stuff? Debian doesn't do that. I really like it when my plans for a day are not cancelled because something gone wrong with my server that I have to deal with instead.

As far as I am concerned there is nothing Debian cannot do that any system can do. it always does it great. There is a big number of other distros that are based Debian. I think the way it works is they take Debian and do stuff to it then release it. I guess those other distros have features doesn't have, but I have no idea what they are.I have come to love stability and someone will correct me if I am wrong, but Debian is a gold standard for stability. Debian is the source.I don't really know, but I think Debian might be the best software ever. Debian is the only software I ever worked with that always impresses me and never disappoints. I only use Debian as VMs hosted on a computer available to me for hosting. The host does not matter Debian matters. I do not use Debian desktop software yet.

So there you have it, my dumb answer to your ____ question. I hope it helps.

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hardened-cc

HARDENED-CC(1)							 Debian GNU/Linux						    HARDENED-CC(1)

NAME

       hardened-cc - gcc wrapper to enforce hardening toolchain improvements

SYNOPSIS

       export DEB_BUILD_HARDENING=1

       gcc ...

DESCRIPTION

       The  hardened-cc  wrapper  is  normally	used by calling gcc as usual when DEB_BUILD_HARDENING is set to 1. It will configure the necessary
       toolchain hardening features. By default, all features are enabled. If a given feature does not work correctly and needs  to  be  disabled,
       the corresponding environment variables mentioned below can be set to 0.

ENVIRONMENT

       DEB_BUILD_HARDENING=1
	      Enable hardening features.

       DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_DEBUG=1
	      Print the full resulting gcc command line to STDERR before calling gcc.

       DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_STACKPROTECTOR=0
	      Disable stack overflow protection. See README.Debian for details.

       DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_RELRO=0
	      Disable read-only linker sections. See README.Debian for details.

       DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_FORTIFY=0
	      Don't fortify several standard functions. See README.Debian for details.

       DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_PIE=0
	      Don't build position independent executables. See README.Debian for details.

       DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_FORMAT=0
	      Disable unsafe format string usage errors. See README.Debian for details.

NOTES

       System-wide settings can be added to /etc/hardening-wrapper.conf, one per line.

       The  real gcc symlinks are renamed gcc.real, and a diversion is registered with dpkg-divert(1).	Thus hardened-cc's idea of the default gcc
       is dictated by whatever package installed /usr/bin/gcc.

SEE ALSO

       hardened-ld(1) gcc(1)

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