# About the staking pool Which Operation System do you recommend?

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/about-the-staking-pool-which-operation-system-do-you-recommend/30315>\
**Category:** Operate a Stake Pool\
**Created:** [28 January 2020 01:28 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/about-the-staking-pool-which-operation-system-do-you-recommend/30315 "2020-01-28T01:28:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![csa86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@csa86](https://forum.cardano.org/u/csa86)\
**Post date:** [28 January 2020 01:28 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/about-the-staking-pool-which-operation-system-do-you-recommend/30315/1 "2020-01-28T01:28:47Z")

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Hello,

I’m planning to deploy the stake pool. tonight The below operation guide says which OS is OK.  
But, I can’t decide between CentOS or Windows 10.  
Which OS do you recommend like deploying easiliy or operating easily?

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We support Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), Mac, and Windows platforms. The following versions are required:

- Linux (2.6.18 or later)
- BSD (NetBSD 8.x and FreeBSD 12.x)
- OSX (10.7 Lion or later)
- Windows 10

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**Author:** ![tsnnst](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/tsnnst/32/16241_2.png) [@tsnnst](https://forum.cardano.org/u/tsnnst)\
**Post date:** [28 January 2020 02:12 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/about-the-staking-pool-which-operation-system-do-you-recommend/30315/2 "2020-01-28T02:12:28Z")

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Its better not get things complicated at the start, for example, in order to use cent os with some configurations that was used in Ubuntu, will require a kernel update… some details that will make you lost some time around to solve… i will suggest just start with 18.04 and then, try others OSs

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**Author:** ![csa86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@csa86](https://forum.cardano.org/u/csa86)\
**Post date:** [29 January 2020 01:56 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/about-the-staking-pool-which-operation-system-do-you-recommend/30315/3 "2020-01-29T01:56:16Z")

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Hi tsnnst,

Thank you for the quick response! Your advice is highly appreciated.  
I will try Ubuntu 18.04 first.  
Once again, Thank you for your support!

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**Author:** ![chlarsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@chlarsen](https://forum.cardano.org/u/chlarsen)\
**Post date:** [16 August 2020 12:42 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/about-the-staking-pool-which-operation-system-do-you-recommend/30315/4 "2020-08-16T12:42:52Z")

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Dear All,  
I consider myself a rather experienced sysadmin, and have been using FreeBSD, and to a good extend, OpenBSD for years. There are compelling reasons to use \*BSD, so I tried to follow the setup instructions, but failed - probably due to some versioning issues with regards to Haskell. Any experience by those that have built the node from source would be highly welcome.  
Last, but not least, a huge “Thank you!” to the Cardano community for their tremendous, diligent and outstanding work.  
Chris