[Samba] Distro and release recommended

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:34:59 -0300
Sergio Belkin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi community,
> 
> I'd like to deploy a SAMBA4 as a Active Directory Domain Controller.
> It's for around 30 domain users and 60 hosts.
> 
> AFAIK CentOS package does not support AD DC role,
> 
> 
> I thought in Debian, but the release available in their repo's is
> 4.5.x. So would you recommend:
> 
> - Compiling from sources?
> - To use backports
> - Choose some other distro?
> 
> So, in short, what distro and release do you recommend me?

Debian Stretch
But use Louis Van Belle's repo:

http://apt.van-belle.nl/

The Packages also work with Devuan.

Rowland