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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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190 points psxuaw | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.344s | source
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asveikau ◴[31 Mar 25 16:22 UTC] No.43536779[source]▶
ZFS is probably the biggest reason for me. I have a machine with a zfs pool running samba and nfsd.

Philosophically I tend to prefer *BSDs over Linux. I have a few FreeBSD machines, one OpenBSD, and one Linux.

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mekster ◴[31 Mar 25 17:24 UTC] No.43537463[source]▶
Ubuntu can have zfs with an install of a package.

BSD’s inability to utilize docker ecosystem had me decided to stick with Ubuntu for a decade, unless things change and BSD gets clear advantages over Linux.

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1. aaronbaugher ◴[31 Mar 25 18:38 UTC] No.43538226[source]▶
Ubuntu can have ZFS. FreeBSD just does, as long as you select "ZFS on root" for your disk layout when you install. It just works, and then you automatically get things like snapshots and easy rollback during upgrades.