Whitch distro for home server

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i386

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By limiting the RHEL public sources to CentOS Stream, it will now be more difficult for community/off-shoot enterprise Linux distributions like Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, etc, to provide 1:1 binary compatible builds against given RHEL releases.
You're late to the party: alma linux has given up the goal to be a 1 to 1 binary rhel compatible distro: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright
 

Captain Lukey

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100% support Alama Linux amazing open source but not for production at scale like Redhat and Ubuntu... , i aways read the small print and look at the open cases on the support portal for a real feel... Always read the small print.. https://bugs.almalinux.org/my_view_page.php. and. then. * Binary/ABI compatibility in our case means working to ensure that applications built to run on RHEL (or RHEL clones) can run without issue on AlmaLinux. (NOW look at the support portal) ... Adjusting to this expectation removes our need to ensure that everything we release is an exact copy of the source code that you would get with RHEL. This includes kernel compatibility and application compatibility. Interface + Interface + Interface = SLOWI need to go to more parties ;)
 

boerni666

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Debian is the go to for home servers. Install the xanmod repo if you need bleeding edge kernels.

I don't get the proxmox hype for home appliances. Bloating up a machine with added layers of middleware for running services is just a waste of ressources and provides more attack surface and the chance to fail. Doesn't really work with KISS.
Docker is fine tho because you arent virtualizing that much. But many services of a linux machine already run in their own chroot.

There are certain use cases which make sense tho.
 
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Captain Lukey

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Debian is the go to for home servers. Install the xanmod repo if you need bleeding edge kernels.

I don't get the proxmox hype for home appliances. Bloating up a machine with added layers of middleware for running services is just a waste of ressources and provides more attack surface and the chance to fail. Doesn't really work with KISS.
Docker is fine tho because you arent virtualizing that much. But many services of a linux machine already run in their own chroot.

There are certain use cases which make sense tho.
If you want to reduce bloat.. use .. index | Alpine Linux and put docker or podman on it!! : run app as a container.. Now even supports (old school windows - Yuk). --- GitHub - dockur/windows: Windows inside a Docker container. - Small simple and VERY secure.
 

Captain Lukey

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i think reducing bloat and running windows are 2 completely different things
I do agree with you but my point was... Windows and some of the latest Linux distros are full of packages that no one "really" needs. if you strip back linux to the starting point (TREE) you can really see the additional libraries and services that are loaded. ( Look at the source tree) https://github.com/torvalds/linux less is more. Fast, Simple, Reliable and Durable. K8s makes this very clear.
 

Sealside

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My preference

Red Hat based
OpenSuse Leap

Debian based
Debian

I would avoid ubuntu on a server it's not as user friendly/easy as you would expect. Always go for LTS releases for servers