Ubuntu
Ubuntu has a beautiful user interface, a complete package management system, strong software source support, a rich technical community, Ubuntu also has good compatibility with most hardware, including the latest graphic graphics card and so on. All this makes Ubuntu more and more popular in the direction of development. But don't forget: all you need is a simple, stable, easy-to-use server System! Ubuntu's graphical interface is beautiful, but it also determines that its best application is the desktop operating system and not the server operating system. How do you want to have an immersive environment while learning Linux, then Ubuntu is good: it's only installed on your own computer and not on the server. From this point of view, Ubuntu does not have a list of operating system options installed on the VPS, and I believe you will not pay for the hundreds of M drive with valuable memory.
sudo apt-get install lsb-/etc/issue
Centos
You will find that a lot of commercial companies deployed in the production environment are using the CentOS system, CentOS is a community re-release version compiled from Rhel source code. CentOS Simple, command line under the humanization of doing a better, stable, with strong English documentation and development community support. and Redhat have the same origin. Although commercial support is not provided separately, it is often possible to find a clue from the Redhat. Compared to Debian, CentOS is slightly larger. is a very mature Linux distribution.
Yum Install redhat-lsb-ylsb_release -A
Debian
Debian is generally more stable than Ubuntu, as a server-friendly operating system. It can be said that stability is unparalleled. The entire Debian system, as long as the application layer does not appear logical defects, basically impregnable, is a perennial system does not need to restart (of course, this is exaggerated points, but not exaggerated its stability). The entire system base of Debian is very small, not only stable, but also occupies little hard disk space and consumes less memory. A 128M VPS can run Debian smoothly, while CentOS is a little hard. However, due to the development of Debian, its help documents are slightly less than that of CentOS, and the technical data is less.
How Ubuntu and CentOS differentiate systems