Debian
Which OS do you use for your homeserver?
Submitted 9 months ago by melandroph@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Proxmox (debian) on the hosts, and Debian for all the VMs and Containers.
Just nice and easy to use, supported by basically everything, and a minimal install uses like 30MB of RAM.
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
You don’t need Safari unless it’s for Apple Pay integration or something. WebKit is open source. Use Epiphany or some other browser that uses it.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
when vendors pull this kind of crap ill simply not test on their software.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
It’s more that like 60% of my web traffic is Safari so I want to make sure it works for those people.
qaz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just Debian, it just works
words_number@programming.dev 9 months ago
This is the way!
lemonuri@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Ditto.
KitchenNo2246@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Debian
dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
TempleOS
hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The way God intended.
Hule@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have just learned about Ubuntu Christian Edition.
rmuk@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Three HP ProLiant servers running ProxMox cluster. Each box has a VM for Portaiber, as well as mismatch of VMs running Home Assistant OS, OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Windows and Debian, along with a Windows file server that connectes to four cheap NAS running Ubuntu LTS with a combined 20 mismatched hard drives by iSCSI and borgs them together with Storage Spaces.
It’s a fucking mess, if I’m honest.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
I love this so much
daniskarma@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Debian.
Stable, well documented, easy to install. I do not need anything else right now.
HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Debian. It is rock solid. If software doesn’t support Debian, chances are it supports something Debian based. You never have to worry about an update breaking your computer. It is the perfect “it just works” distro for a server.
harsh3466@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ubuntu LTS, with all my services in Docker containers.
I know Ubuntu gets a lot of (deserved) hate for some of the shit Canonical pulls, but for now, I like Ubuntu and it works for me.
When I rebuilt my server at the beginning of the month, I was gonna jump to Debian, but my god the Debian website is obtuse. After looking at the site and reading and trying to determine what to download to get the Debian with non-free (I’m unfortunately working with an NVIDIA card), I decided to go with Ubuntu. I needed a smooth rebuild process and with Ubuntu I know exactly what I’ll get when I download the LTS server.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
It’s always best to use whatever distro you’re most comfortable with. Especially if you’re going to install stuff in containers/VMs so the repos of the base distro don’t even matter that much.
harsh3466@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Exactly. Thats ultimately why I skipped Debian and went with Ubuntu
krash@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I went with Ubuntu server and was pleasantly surprised when it offered to pull my pubkey off my github profile for ssh. A nice touch that I haven’t seen in other servers flavors of various distros.
harsh3466@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s pretty cool!
BlueBockser@programming.dev 9 months ago
After looking at the site and trying to determine what to download to get Debian with non-free (I’m unfortunately working with an NVIDIA card)
FWIW, Debian now includes non-free firmware in the installation media by default and will install whatever is necessary.
I agree that the Debian website has its weaknesses, but beyond finding the right installer (usually netinst ISO a.k.a small installation image on www.debian.org/distrib/) there isn’t much of a learning curve. I started out with Ubuntu too, but finally decided that enough was enough when snap started breaking my stuff on desktop and haven’t looked back.
harsh3466@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The inclusion of non-free by default was what was unclear to me from the website. Knowing that now, I’ll likely give Debian a spin next time I need an install.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Synology DiskStation Manager.
M500@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Debian
shalva97@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Arch Linux. I am so used to it I just can’t live with any other OS
PHLAK@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I am super impressed with Arch on my home servers. People seem to think “rolling” means “unstable” but the only issues I’ve had were due to some weird hardware incompatibility with my motherboard. Once I replaced the mobo my system has been rock solid AND reasonably up-to-date (I do use LTS kernel).
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I felt the exact same way. So many comments online told me that running Arch as a home NAS was insane, but after the Jupiter Broadcasting guys did it without much issue, I decided to give it a go and was pleasantly surprised. I think if most of your stuff is running in Docker and you have BTRFS snapshots for your root filesystem, the system’s pretty much bullet proof. The rolling updates also mean you’ll never have huge upgrade cycles that are a pain in the ass to migrate to. You’re always just dealing with small manageable fires instead of large complicated ones and that’s a plus.
HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Proxmox for the the hosts, Debian cloud imagen for the VMs and docker inside
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ubuntu Server with docker/docker-compose on top.
So many guides for Ubuntu specifically makes reading up on something a lot easier and it works just fine.
Zeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ubuntu 🤢
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Truenas
Thought it would be more popular. I’m outnumbered hard
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Arch because why not.
Cyber@feddit.uk 9 months ago
This is the correct response
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
OpenMediaVault
Good OOTB customizations, works on Pi, and easy to extend with plugins (Docker/Portainer is pretty much all I needed).
harald_im_netz@feddit.de 9 months ago
Same
kinther@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ubuntu 22.04 server. It works well enough for my purposes and until it doesn’t I don’t see a reason to switch distros.
Zeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Proprietary 🤮
kinther@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, well it works for me.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
I didnt realize. Do you have more info on this?
enshu@lemmy.world 9 months ago
NixOS
owen@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
NixOS, I find the config very easy and quick
Hule@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve just dipped my toes into it, but I imagine migrating to another machine to be just gorgeous…
ndupont@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Proxmox with Debian LXC containers. The most natural transition from Raspberry Pi OS which is a Debian flavor
wax@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
Same. Haven’t had the need for full blown VMs at all. Passing through the iGPU for transcoding took a bit of time to figure out, but works great. I do have an Arch LXC container for some apps without a deb repository, though, to keep them updated through AUR.
shadowbert@kbin.social 9 months ago
Unraid, mostly
CazRaX@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same here, when I made mine I had a whole mix of different sized drives so it made sense. I like not having to worry about drive size, as long as they are smaller than the parity drives.
alansuspect@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Just to be controversial, macos. It’s nothing fancy, just the arrs and Jellyfin running on an old MacBook air.
EpicVision@monero.town 9 months ago
Wouldn’t Linux be easier to manage and better in terms of performance?
alansuspect@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Maybe, but I’m not a huge Linux user and every time I dip my toe in I run out of tinkering time. Plus I had the Air laying around and it all installed so easily.
Swarfega@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Pi OS. It’s a Pi4 after all.
april@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m running FreeBSD I actually like it a lot.
I picked it for zfs. A lot of the ways things work seem cleaner and simpler than on Linux and zfs is awesome with the copy on write snapshots and filesystem compression and all that. I like rc.conf and pf is way nicer than iptables and even when you upgrade it automatically makes a snapshot so you can rollback.
Sometimes I do need to patch and compile things because people seem to not know freebsd exists but that’s really the only downside.
legios@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Same here for the same reasons (although I started with FreeBSD 4.x) and have adapted to ZFS and Jails over the years.
The POLA (Principle Of Least Astonishment) when it comes to changes is awesome too.
kindenough@kbin.social 9 months ago
TrueNAS formerly known as FreeNAS
AtariDump@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hyper-V / ESXi for host. Mostly windows with some Ubuntu server.
wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
OpenBSD for all of them.
lntl@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
bsd fam
Zeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How is the OpenBSD experience? I have 2x4TB hard drives in my Libreboot server (Dell T1650 motherboard), can I easily setup RAID 1 through the OS?
wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
OpenBSD is the most pleasing expérience I’ve had with an OS. It’s fully contained and has all the tools you need without needing to install anything (eg a DNS, HTTP, SMTP servers, a proxy, a good firewall). All config files look alike and use the same keywords for the same things, making it straightforward to configure everything.
And regarding RAID 1, I’ve never done it myself, but it totally works out of the box (as well as full disk encryption).
themachine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Debian for all things.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Debian all the way
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Second that. I’m glad RPis are finally supported.