- Could you share your personal take on running Bitcoin node on Linux?
All other answers were answered, but this one is rather personal... So i tought i'd chip in.
I'm a unix sysadmin (it's my daytime job), so i might not be the best reference, but i find running a full node on *nix much easyer to setup than running one on windows.
If you're stuck, i helped n0nce gathering all info he needed to write this nice topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366854.0It was losely based on this topic written by me (a long time ago):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217198.0Both topics are much wider than your usecase, but they do describe (amongst other things) how to setup a full node on openSuse and Centos...
Installing a full node on ubuntu (which seems to be more or less the most popular "newbie" distro) is even easyer:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#ubuntu--debian (these are the complete build instructions)
I usually compile the reference client myself, but you can also just opt to download the pre-built binary version aswell (it does require some trust regarding to the person building the binary version).
https://bitcoin.org/en/download