best linux distribution for web/mysql server?

for the past year, i've been running a web/mysql server on a windows xp machine running apache 2.

recently, i've been considering a switch to linux to take advantage of the numberous additional features that unix based servers can support.

since i am rather new to linux, i have no idea which version/distribution of linux i should use to run this webserver. one last note, the processors i am using do support 64-bit processing so it is possible for me to use 64-bit linux operating systems.

anyways, what do you guys recommend??

 

 

 

 

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