TrueNAS scale with truecharts for my main server. I'm considering rolling out a compute only server with openSUSE microOS to leave trueNAS only for storage. I like openSUSE philosophy and microOS with cockpit seems solid on my tests. I might start with some old laptops and deploy the ldap server there to test it and remove that responsability from TrueNAS.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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- XCP-ng on my virtualization host
- TrueNAS Core on my NAS
- Ubuntu Server on my Jellyfin media server
- Debian on my other server that I use for testing purposes
- DietPi on my Raspberry Pi
Nixos, brothers and sisters, show yourself 🥸
Arch for stuff I have physical access to. Nothing's ever gone wrong, so it's worth it for the immediate updates and consistency with my other systems. For VPS I use Debian though, occasionally the unstable/Sid branch if I really need the latest updates. There are almost always Debian images available on a VPS.
Gentoo always and for everything!
How stable is it for you? Did you compile everything from source for your server? What other benefits do you see with Gentoo?
I'm considering Alpine
Stable? I never had instability of any kind with gentoo like... Ever... Except for faulty hardware (dead USB Ethernet card, bad memory stick...).
Gentoo let's you build the most skinny and bloatless server you can, just what you need how you want it. No bullshit, no choices made by others (Ubuntu I look at you). And optimized for your hardware too.
Today's compile time is ridiculously small, so that's not a down point for Gentoo.
Also, its so damn adherent to the true Linux philosophy that its surprisingly logical and coherent in it's internal organization that doesn't get in your way.
Ah, and docker and podman support is piece of cake if you like that stuff.
Its even less bloated than a plain text-only fresh Debian install.
You don't even have a logger or a cron daemon by default unless YOU install it.
And there is so much great quality documentation that even navigated Linux people will learn new tricks installing Gentoo.
Check out the Gentoo Handbook online.
And I have more than once installed gentoo on another running Linux, then rebooted remotely to a fresh Gentoo. Do it with any other distro, I dare you!
Ubuntu server, I want to switch to debian but I don't know if it'll be worth it
I'm running to servers as hosts for docker. One with Ubuntu and one with Debian. So far I haven't noticed a meaningful difference
That's the boat I'm in, I swapped my laptop from kubuntu to Debian which is solid for me. Server has a lot setup on it that I could move but for now Ubuntu server works, not really feeling the push to change.
Good ol' Debian 12
Debian is ~
Proxmox, Openmediavault, Ubuntu Server. Mostly because I'm lazy and I grew up using Ubuntu.
I'm currently on ubuntu and fedora. I'd love to try coreos
TrueNAS, and Debian
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Alpine on Pi4.
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LMDE on recycled AMD systems (phenoms, opterons, FM2 APUs, oh and a recently dead bulldozer fx-8150).
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TrueNAS, OPNsense on dedicated hardware.
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VMware ESXi on my older workstations (currently transitioning toward LXD/Incus and ~~XPG-ng~~ XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra).
You mean XCP-ng?
Yes, 😅. Thank you for letting me know.
I typed correctly I'm pretty sure, but typing it again now it autocorrects to "C - C - P" now 🫤. Even more confused.
I'll edit my original post.
Just to be controversial, macos. It's nothing fancy, just the arrs and Jellyfin running on an old MacBook air.
Wouldn't Linux be easier to manage and better in terms of performance?
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.
I was just curious. Use whatever works best for you.
All good! The laptop I was using Linux on I installed batocera on instead 😊
Arch which is great, but I want to move to FreeBSD or Proxmox for security reasons
Currently Unraid, haven't tried anything else lol
Windows 10 LTSC
Debian with Yunohost.
OpenMediaVault (Debian), it's the perfect amount of tinkering and simplicity for my first nas/homeserver
That was my first NAS OS, too! It's a gateway drug 😆
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