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Which OS do you use for your homeserver? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
LTS Long Term Support software version
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC Single-Board Computer
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
k8s Kubernetes container management package
nginx Popular HTTP server

15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fedora

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] different_base@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fedora Server

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A few actually.

Rocky Linux 9, XCP-NG, Windows server 2022 datacenter

Different usecasses.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My setup consists of the following:

Unraid, most services I self host run in docker here. Things like plex/jellyfin, nextcloud, unifi could controller.

Proxmox, used to virtualize my pfsense after I moved away from my unifi USG router. A few Linux and Debian headless virtual machines run here as well. Had pihole virtualized here as well but switched over to pfBlockerNG to consolidate.

TrueNAS, all my media shares. I also sync my desktop environments here to have a consistent windows desktop across my desktops and laptops.

Home assistant running on home assistant yellow. Runs a few add-on services.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 year ago

Mythbuntu. It started its life as a MythTV server.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I have several servers I’ve acquired over the years setup in a proxmox cluster

[–] apigban@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

hypervisor: proxmox

vms: rhel 9.2

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu server w/ zfs on the main.

Have a little atom hp home server at my parents house that uses almost no power, that runs freebsd x86, zerotier one, and kopia. Free cloud backup 😁

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu and WinServer2019 vms split over a proxmox-machine and server2019-hyperv-machine

2 each for replication.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Arch which is great, but I want to move to FreeBSD or Proxmox for security reasons

[–] Unyieldingly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

TrueNAS, and Debian

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Proxmox, Openmediavault, Ubuntu Server. Mostly because I'm lazy and I grew up using Ubuntu.

[–] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Xavier@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

  • Alpine on Pi4.

  • LMDE on recycled AMD systems (phenoms, opterons, FM2 APUs, oh and a recently dead bulldozer fx-8150).

  • TrueNAS, OPNsense on dedicated hardware.

  • VMware ESXi on my older workstations (currently transitioning toward LXD/Incus and ~~XPG-ng~~ XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra).

[–] EpicVision@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean XCP-ng?

[–] Xavier@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] alvaro@social.graves.cl 1 points 1 year ago

@melandroph@lemmy.dbzer0.com Good old Debian

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Armbian

[–] cow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Alpine Linux edge

[–] fedorafan@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Fedora core os (FCOS) vms on XCP-NG with trueNas for persistent storage. With FCOS, vms configurations can stay version controlled and deployed using open Tofu (terraform) and butane/ignition.

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