... choose a "compatible base distro" based on your needs: familiarity; performance; security; usability; etc. Please see https://sourceforge.net/p/formavid/code/ci/master/tree/INSTALL.txt for details. The appliance is specially designed to run on the Google Cloud Platform "Free Tier" https://formavid.org/gce and has it's own custom install script https://sourceforge.net/projects/formavid/files/gcloud-gce-deployment/download with instructions https://sourceforge.net/projects/formavid/files/ provided.