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Linux distro for selfhosting server (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I have been running a fair amount of selfhosted services over the last decade or so. I have always been running this on a Ubuntu LTS distribution running on a intel NUC machine. Most, if not all of my services run in a docker container, and using a docker compose file that brings everything up. The server is headless. I connect over ssh into a tmux config so I am always ready to go.

Ubuntu has been my stable server choice over the years. I've made the upgrade from 16, 18, 20 and 22 LTS release and everything has kept working. I even upgraded the hardware (old NUC to a new NUC) and just imaged the disk from the old one onto the new machine, and the server kept chugging along quite nicely, after I configured the hardware (specifically the Intel QuickSync for hardware transcoding in the Plex container).

Since Ubuntu has been transitioning from a really open community driven effort into a commercial enterprise, I feel it may be time to look at other distributions. On the other hand, it will require a fair amount of work to make the switch. But if it needs to be done, than so be it. I guess I am looking for opinions on what Linux distribution would fit my particular use case, and am wondering what most of us here are running.

TLDR; What stable, long term supported Linux distributions do you recommend for a headless server running a stack of docker containers?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Gentoo. While a bit unusual, it's perfect for the job.

Check my wiki at https://wiki.gardiol.org where I document my Gentoo selfhost experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I do Debian on my server. I use openSUSE tumbleweed on the desktop but I could see leap being good for a server. YAST is pretty great .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
LTS	Long Term Support software version
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
k8s	Kubernetes container management package

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Omv, that is debian with a Web interface basically

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