Linux distribution suited for a clean and easy Drupal 8 install I am experiencing a series of issues trying to prepare a server on my professional environment for running Drupal 8. By default, the IT team will install CentOS 6. More precisely, we are running CentOS 6.7.

The issue here is that the default versions of PHP and MySQL on that version of CentOS won't match the minimum required versions for running Drupal 8, which requires us to use repositories. As we are not Linux ninjas, we are facing several problems with the repos. I have two versions of libmysqlclient on the system, but the system will only 'see' the old one which doesn't support the MySQL version required by Drupal. The thing is really getting cumbersome.

So my next approach would be to suggest the IT team to go with the ideal Linux distribution which wouldn't require us to use the repositories, one that can deliver the cleanest install of PHP, Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and Drush.

Based on your experience installing Drupal 8 on Linux servers, what is your preferred setup (Linux distribution), requiring minimum effort from server administrator, to install the appropriate versions of PHP, Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and Drush that will work 'out of the box', discarding the use of custom repos? Thanks in advance.
Now that is released, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with php 7.0, perfect for drupal 8.