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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using Debian for about 20 years now. Server and desktop. But I recently migrated all my server stuff to FreeBSD and I don't think I will move back. Jails are great and provide me a convenient way to isolate my apps. On the desktop side I will stay with Debian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first reaction to learning about jails was "why the hell doesn't linux have these".

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can check LXD too : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LXD And podman : https://podman.io/ Podman is docker without dockerd, and is more similar to what is bastillebsd to jails. https://bastillebsd.org/