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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Lightweight distro for home server? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm refurbishing an old PC to work as a home server for several stuff. I'm looking for a lightweight distribution to install in it, but with a decent package repository. A small image size will be appreciated, as I have slow bandwidth too.

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

Linux is quite lightweight. Pick a distro that doesn't run a lot of stuff by default. OpenBSD only runs sshd exposed to the network, AFAIR. Debian probably does the same. But really, the lightness comes from what isn't running. NixOS, fedora, rocky, alpine are all decent alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using NixOS for my server. Makes self hosting a breeze because there's built in config options for most services I've tried to setup

[–] folak 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi, you got dotfiles ? I want to take a look.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Have sent you an example of a nix config file on matrix

[–] bluespin 1 points 1 year ago

Mind if I check it out as well? I'm considering switching to NixOS