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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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190 points psxuaw | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | 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. nisa ◴[01 Apr 25 00:26 UTC] No.43541543[source]▶
Ubuntu ships an outdated version that misses a lot of bugfixes. They don't seem to be interested in either backporting fixes or shipping the current stable version. Every other day some Ubuntu user hits the ZFS GitHub issues with a problem that was fixed years ago.
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2. hedora ◴[01 Apr 25 03:28 UTC] No.43542539[source]▶
After hitting this in production, I will never choose Ubuntu again.

On top of the things you mentioned, it’s basically impossible to produce a working playbook that switches from Ubuntu’s garbage package to the upstream ones - systemd wedges badly about 25% of the time, and force disables the zfs units. None of the documented systemd overrides worked.

I’m enjoying devuan and openbsd at home.