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Which OS do you use for your homeserver? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by melandroph@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Windows Server 2016.

Nah just joking, Ubuntu Server 23.10

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[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Debian + Docker.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

Host is Proxmox, with Ubuntu LTS VMs.

[–] moritz@l.deltaa.xyz 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Proxmox VE with Alpine Linux guests

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

lxcs are just great. love alpine on proxmox.

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[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've got a homemade NAS running unRAID and my arr suite/Jellyfin/qbittorrent, and an orangepi running the orangepiOS (flavor of Ubuntu I think?) Which handles home assistant and associated containers .

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

TrueNAS Scale

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

Freebsd, but it would be openbsd if it had a better filesystem.

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

arch + docker for the services

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I use Proxmox, running a mix of regular and NixOS based LXCs. One of those also runs Docker for simpler services.

[–] boerbiet@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago

TrueNAS Core as main OS and a few jails for the services I run on the machine.

[–] flit@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good ol' Debian 12

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

NetBSD

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Nixos, brothers and sisters, show yourself 🥸

[–] padge@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OpenMediaVault (Debian), it's the perfect amount of tinkering and simplicity for my first nas/homeserver

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[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Armbian with CasaOS

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[–] mobergmann@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I am running Ubuntu server and I am... satisfied with it. It does what it should, no problems, nothing to worry about, stable AF (as any mature distro?). But lately I am thinking about switching to fedora server (I need to reset my system one way or another, because my space on the hard drive for the system ran out of space (it was a small drive)). I am using fedora on my work machine and I really like it, so I thought I could give fedora on my server a try.

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo!

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[–] ehleks@lemmy.javant.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Ubuntu normal release running Docker containers.

Had various issues with Debian Bookworm, not being able to install the “server” meta package on one server which left me without all the basics but “apt” and issues with lost IPv6 connections that made me switch to Ubuntu

[–] time_fo_that@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Currently Unraid, haven't tried anything else lol

[–] thedaemon@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

FreeBSD & 9Front. BSD for my media server and 9front for my web server.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Currently Ubuntu server 22.04

Previous was ESXi

Next one will be Proxmox

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Arch is the best

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Proxmox w/Debian, TrueNAS Scale, and Home Assistant VMs w/(usually Alpine) Docker containers in some VMs

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

ArchlinuxARM, however it does not matter, given that everything I actually run, runs within Docker

[–] jcrabapple@fedia.io 4 points 9 months ago

Debian.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

My 3 hosts all run Proxmox. Publicly available services run in VMs, usually running Ubuntu. Private services are usually Docker containers connected directly to my TailScale network running directly on the host.

[–] rabauke@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

slackware, freebsd, netbsd

[–] ghoscht@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Right now Debian, but I'll migrate to NixOS pretty soon since it's already running on all of my machines except this server.

[–] thedoginthewok@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Unraid for NAS stuff

Proxmox for Smart home crap

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu LTS and k3s for all workloads (except for plex, which I've not gotten around to migrating yet...)

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[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

One with Arch that runs gameservers for my friends, and another that runs Proxmox filled with either Arch or Debian in the containers depending on what it is in them.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Debian with Yunohost.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Proxmox with latest Debian i guess, but all virtual machines are on Ubuntu 23.10. It's just the easiest to install things on, and have a semi-recent kernel, even though I would never use it on the desktop.

I actually wanted to run arch in the vms but I couldn't find any image with the latest arch. The latest I found was with kernel 6.3.

[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Fedora

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Windows Hyper-V Server on the host with most of the VM's split between Ubuntu and Debian. I also have two Windows VM's that I keep out of necessity.

[–] melandroph@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

I'm currently on ubuntu and fedora. I'd love to try coreos

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