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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: 0.255s | source
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lunarlull ◴[31 Mar 25 17:10 UTC] No.43537296[source]▶
Alpine, Void, Devuan or Artix all would have allowed author to use Linux while addressing his points of concern. I don't think the BSD's have real advantages anymore since so much core performance stuff is in Linux first. When most of the software is available on all these platforms, it mostly comes down to user preference.
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quesera ◴[31 Mar 25 17:26 UTC] No.43537486[source]▶
I run Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and SmartOS/illumos in various capacities personal and professional.

Each has its own strengths, but I choose FreeBSD for home servers (shared file/media server. and network gateway), for a few specific reasons:

  - ZFS (on root, fully integrated tooling for jails, etc)
  - More consistency/less churn in base system (great for set-and-forget systems)
  - Ports/pkg (still better than any Linux pkg manager)
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1. avhception ◴[31 Mar 25 19:30 UTC] No.43538857[source]▶
The first two are the exact reason I run FreeBSD on my home servers, too.