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OpenBSD for all of them.
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?
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).
The rom for the T1650 is weird, I tried updating mine and got no display, so I’m sticking with my old rom right now. Are you having the same issue? You can build the rom in lbmk or download the roms from one of the Libreboot mirrors.
I am currently adding support for the Dell Optiplex 9020 MT, it supports a i7 4790K and 32GB of DDR3 1.5v RAM (Non-ECC). The i7-4790K is a little bit faster, like 6% overall, but it’s main feature is having AVX2 support. This increases the peformance drastically for machine learning (e.g. LLMs), compiling peformance, and even virtual machines. It’s basically modern-like gaming computer. It’s actually the first Libreboot desktop computer to support AVX2.
Happy to hear I inspired you to build a Libreboot gaming machine! Stay tuned for the next port, you can expect a release by next week!
bsd fam
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.
I also have an OSX VM because that’s literally the only way you can test a website in Safari (fu Apple).
Love proxmox. Been using it for nearly a decade and while it has its pain points it has been rock solid for me for the past 4 years.
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.
when vendors pull this kind of crap ill simply not test on their software.
It’s more that like 60% of my web traffic is Safari so I want to make sure it works for those people.
thats unexpected, what are you doing thats being used by a majority of apple users?
Perhaps a website for an iOS or Mac app? 😊
Ubuntu, but I’m very strongly considering switching out to Debian or Rocky. Ubuntu has a lot of really unnecessary cruft that I think I’d be better off without.
I use Fedora on my laptop now, so going the RHEL/Rocky/Alma route for my servers is really tempting. Especially as I’m also considering switching to Podman.
Ubuntu LTS, but in the process of replacing it with Debian
What benefit do you expect to get from this switch? Just wondering why there are so many Debian over Ubuntu in this thread
- There has been some technical decisions over the last few years that I don’t think fit my needs terribly well; chief of these is the push for Snaps - they are a proprietary distribution format, that adds significant overhead without any real benefit, and Canonical has been pushing more and more functionality into Snap
- I previously chose Ubuntu over Debian because I needed more up to date versions of things like Python and PHP, with Docker this isn’t really a concern any more, so slower, more conservative approach Debian takes isn’t as big of an issue
Proxmox for the the hosts, Debian cloud imagen for the VMs and docker inside
Synology DiskStation Manager.
Rocky, but I’ll probably give Debian a try next time I decide to nuke my install
I’m currently contemplating switching to Rocky. What makes you want to get away from it?
The OS experience is good, but I want to get away from RHEL/CentOS and clones due to Red Hat’s decisions in recent years
Debian
Right now Debian, but I’ll migrate to NixOS pretty soon since it’s already running on all of my machines except this server.
FreeBSD as main OS with jails and one bhyve vm for docker stuff. And ubuntu server on a dell optiplex micro for jellyfin with hardware transcoding
TrueNAS SCALE as host with an Ubuntu LTS VM running Docker containers.
Original I went with only containers running on top of SCALE but both iX and TrueCharts made it harder to run plain Docker Compose on TrueNAS.
Gentoo because it can do it all
Fellow Gentooer, Gentoo rocks!
Ubuntu LTS and k3s for all workloads (except for plex, which I’ve not gotten around to migrating yet…)
Hello fellow k3s friend!
It’s okay. You aren’t alone anymore.
I used unraid for a long while. I recently switched to opensuse microos for a better desktop experience, and it’s been fantastic
Debian + Docker.
