Hey there,

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Just title really, looking for the easiest/most reliable OS for a small homeserver that is FOSS (not unraid)

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Relatively light use, self host some things, some in home movie playback, password manager and the like, probably a pi-hole type setup too.

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Thanks!

  • lenzo1337@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you don’t have any experience, then probably FreeBSD imho; Follows unix philosophy, stable, built-in support for ZFS, dns caching, NFSv3 & NFSv4, used as the base system for stuff like OPNsense, freenas and a bunch of other stuff at one point in time or another.

    And it’s really well documented.

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    If you already have a set of linux utilities or a certain distro you really like then go for that. But it’s almost always going to mix-up user and system installations along with needing to learn new stuff for every distro and hoping it’s stable with all the different package managers you will need.