28.01.2015, 10:29
There are basically two Linux branches (I say basically because there are hundreds of distributions): RedHat based (RedHat, CentOS) and Debian based (Debian, Ubuntu). Both work equally fine and the choice is usually dependent on what you're used to. However, I find the package manager in Debian to be much easier to work with. Debian also does not enable SELinux by default and is therefor more open.