Edit: wow, this is a never ending comment section!

  • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    My DIY NAS runs Arch

    • LTS kernel
    • BTRFS snapshots on root fs
    • 4 drive NVMe array using ZFS raidz1
    • podman for my docker containers

    It’s been working fantastically so far.

    • maeries@feddit.deEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’m running to servers as hosts for docker. One with Ubuntu and one with Debian. So far I haven’t noticed a meaningful difference

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    5 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
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    LTS Long Term Support software version
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
    k8s Kubernetes container management package
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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    • Hule@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’ve just dipped my toes into it, but I imagine migrating to another machine to be just gorgeous…

  • lgo@feddit.nlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Currently I am using Arch Linux. I am in the process of switching to NixOS.

      • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        5 months ago

        It isn’t, it’s just different. I use NixOS because of stupid easy rollbacks, which is great for experimenting in production, and its declarative nature, which is great in a server setting.

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Declarative configuration of services and the rest of the entire system, and everything that brings with it.

        • Want to test some new service, or make changes to an existing one, but don’t know if you want to keep it? Sure, just temporarily switch to the new configuration, you can always switch back to the old one and everything will be back as it was.
        • Have multiple servers and want to share configuration between them? Absolutely, just import the same file from both. I have a git repo storing configurations for 10 machines and a huge part of it is shared configuration.
        • Want to use one service’s endpoint (such as a socket path) in another? Sure, just use the socket path configuration option for the first service in the configuration for the second, such as here. This works since everything is a single tree of options which all the service configuration files are then generated from, so interpolate stuff as you wish.
        • Checks for configuration correctness during build of the system (NixOS options are type checked during evaluation, and then during the actual system build there’s more checks, like nginx config has to succeed nginx -t, otherwise the system build fails and you can’t switch to it)
        • Want to spin up a VM to test changes before putting it on the actual target? There’s a builtin command (nixos-rebuild build-vm) that makes a script that starts a QEMU VM with your configuration running in it. It’s as fast as building the real system, so a couple seconds if you’re making small changes.
        • Setting up services is also often as easy as putting services.foo.enable = true; in your configuration. And, if you remove that line, the service is gone, so you’re never left with “the random package or file you installed once to test something and has been forgotten about”. That’s the biggest thing it has over any kind of imperative solution IMO.

        I feel like even if I want to distro hop again and end up putting something else on my desktop, NixOS is going to stay on my servers indefinitely. It’s pretty much a perfect fit for servers.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I just heard of NixOS for the first time because of this thread. Looked up some videos on it, and my jaw hit the fucking floor.

  • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Ubuntu 22.04 server. It works well enough for my purposes and until it doesn’t I don’t see a reason to switch distros.