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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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185 points psxuaw | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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dangus ◴[31 Mar 25 16:19 UTC] No.43536745[source]▶
Just another “I don’t like systemd and refuse to understand it” rant.

I can’t think of any change that has improved my Linux sysadmin experience more than the move to systemd.

Is it complicated? Perhaps it is. But this FUD about it being resource intensive or unreliable or difficult to use is complete nonsense.

And on top of that systemd isn’t even “Linux.” Plenty of popular production-ready distros like Alpine Linux don’t even use it.

And of course I’m not saying FreeBSD is bad, but I’m not the one writing and publishing an article bashing a system I don’t understand.

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alabastervlog ◴[31 Mar 25 16:29 UTC] No.43536867[source]▶
I'm only still on Linux for my server because Docker saves me from having to interact with systemd at all. Or, indeed, from caring very much what distro I'm even on.
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1. andreldm ◴[31 Mar 25 16:38 UTC] No.43536974[source]▶
If you ever consider switching to Podman, you’ll be surprised to see how it kinda pushes you back to systemd.
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2. alabastervlog ◴[31 Mar 25 16:48 UTC] No.43537074[source]▶
I try never to mess with my stack unless something breaks so badly that changing it is necessary. This hasn't happened yet in... six years, for my current server? This is the first time I've had a "home server" that's more value than the cost of maintaining it, and frankly it's because I neglect the hell out of it and resist any urge to go make things "better" just-because. And because of the isolation of Docker images from the awful mixed-together system-and-userspace distro package manager—I can upgrade any daemon I care about with a tiny edit to a shell script and a couple commands, works every time, never fucks up my base system or other unrelated daemons due to any stupid crap like sometimes happens when you try to get newer packages on an older version of a Linux distro.

Docker's just a package manager and process manager, the way I use it, and has performed flawlessly in that role.