sundaylab

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[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

When I heard harris give speeches I always thought “well, you have a direct ear to the president and are one of the highest ranking democrats in the US. Why don’t you use this to make change now?

Well said!

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Stop using Chrome!

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I settled on a Fujitsu Q920 with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. Runs FreeBSD 14.1 and each service has its own Jail.

Services:

DNSmasq - local DNS and adblocker Wireguard Navidrome MPD - Media server Vaultwarden - password save Radicale - cardav and caldav server TinyRSS - RSS aggregator Zabbix - server and service monitoring Postgresql Gitea - git repository Emby - jellyfin alternative Mariadb Bhyve VM with Debian running 2 apps (invoiceplane and leantime) which use a quite old php version and I never had time to port to Freebsd.

A second machine that starts daily and creates a backup of machine 1 by using ZFS autobackup.

Nothing fancy but it does what I need.

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

OK. Thanks for clarifying. :)

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Am I reading this correctly. 799 pln for entrance?

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

My feeling is that there is. I think it all started with the speed I can login over ssh. Debian always seems to have a short delay but FreeBSD feels instant. When it comes to rating FreeBSD as a better OS for servers I may be biased as Debian has served me so well over the years. I was never a Docker fan but instantly liked Jails for isolating services. Then we have native ZFS support which simplifies my backup needs. A simple zfs send | zfs receive and you have an exact copy of your service instance on a remote node. Everything feels integrated and not stacked. Again, just a personal opinion.

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Yes yes yes. It's great to see other FreeBSD fans here with the same opinion.

I was using Debian as a server OS for more than twenty years with short escapades to other distros but then I discovered FreeBSD and there was no way back. ;)

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'm a long time user of Debian myself too. No cutting edge fuzz, just a working, stable OS all of the time. What else do you need for a server? It always did the job.

But then I stumbled on FreeBSD, and man, that's a server OS. Simple design and blazing fast. No Docker but I never liked it anyway. My Docker is called Jails and in my opinion is they're superior. Service isolation on the next level.

On my laptop? Debian due to hardware and software support. And I'll stick to that for now. I feel home on that distro.

I can't say anything about OpenBSD as I never tried it but it sure is a perfect fit for a server as well depending on your needs and preferences. BSD just rocks!

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Second that. Been with them for a year now. Good price and performance.

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Same here. I'm using mainly FreeBSD on my servers so docker is a no go due to lack of support. I have to stick with Photoprism for now as it offers a install without docker and it does the job for me. Anyhow, I'm not happy with the trend that most FOSS projects today limit the deployment on docker and do not offer a way of a plain install on you *nix system of choice.

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Nice one. Downloaded and will try it soon. Using Ultrasonic at the moment so eager to see differences between the apps. Happy new year by the way. ;)

[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I jumped onto the FreeBSD train a year ago and needed some virtualization tool for my job. A started using bhyve and must say that I am quite happy with it and don't plan to move to any other tool soon. Not sure how it compares to other tools performance wise but it does the job for me.

 

Hi all. I was wondering if somebody tried or managed to deploy a Lemmy instance on a FreeBSD machine. When looking at the Lemmy repositories it seems to me that docker is a requirement. Or am I wrong?

I recently moved all my sites and services to FreeBSD and have no Linux based VPS right now but still would like to run a Lemmy instance.

Thanks a lot for any help / clarification.

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