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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: 0.243s | source
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nine_k ◴[31 Mar 25 16:28 UTC] No.43536856[source]▶
If systemd is the reason, there are several good distros without systemd (I run Void Linux in particular).

If "kubesomething" is the reason, there's no requirement to use it. I think most people don't run it on their home servers.

If containers are the reason, then again, they are not a requirement. But they are pretty similar to BSD's jails. I don't think they are particularly complex.

FreeBSD has a number of strong suits: ZFS, a different kernel and network stack, a cohesive system from a small(ish) team of authors, the handbook, etc. But the usual Linux hobgoblins listed above are a red herring here, to my mind.

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csdvrx ◴[31 Mar 25 16:40 UTC] No.43536992[source]▶
> But the usual Linux hobgoblins listed above are a red herring here, to my mind.

Absolutely

> If containers are the reason, then again, they are not a requirement. But they are pretty similar to BSD's jails. I don't think they are particularly complex.

The only point I agree with the author is that many things are shipped to be used with docker when they don't need to be, which creates a needless dependency.

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1. chillfox ◴[01 Apr 25 00:53 UTC] No.43541706[source]▶
I used to run FreeBSD on my home server and switched it over to Alpine Linux (with ZFS) because everything I wanted to run came as a docker containers and it was just easier to use docker compose to manage all the apps.