I have been wanting to self-host recently I have an old laptop it's a Toshiba satellite m100-221 sitting around it only has 4gb of ram, but I don't know what is a good starting point for an OS for my home lab I discovered yunohost but heard mixed opinions about it when searching I would like lemmy's opinion on a good OS for a beginner wanting to start a home lab.
- Figure out what you want to host.
- Read up on what is required to host that.
- Understand what is required to host that.
- Skip step 3, wing it and search the internet as you go.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
Without knowing what you actually want to do, I’d put Debian on it. Very good, very stable, very widespread OS with plenty of tutorials around for whatever you decide to do with it. Do a minimal installation and 4 GB RAM are plenty to play around with.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I use debian for my ancient media server. It’s great.
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
i use dietpi, which is built upon a minimal debian.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
Even better when you’re already familiar with it. And I’d consider a media server to already be “selfhosting”.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I second Debian because of the amount of information out there.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Yup Debian would also be my way of getting started.