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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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185 points psxuaw | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | 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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charcircuit ◴[01 Apr 25 00:03 UTC] No.43541384[source]▶
Linux has ZFS too. FreeBSD actually switched over to using the Linux implementation a few years ago.
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M95D ◴[01 Apr 25 08:31 UTC] No.43544240[source]▶
Linux is just a kernel and ZFS isn't in there.
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1. charcircuit ◴[02 Apr 25 03:32 UTC] No.43553405[source]▶
There is a Linux driver for ZFS.