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Easiest to use FOSS OS for homeserver? (alien.top)

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

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Hey there,

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

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

Thanks!

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

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.