Hello there lemmings! Finally I have taken up the courage to buy a low power mini PC to be my first homeserver (Ryzen 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD, already have 6TB external HDD tho). I have basically no tangible experience with Debian or Fedora-based system, since my daily drivers are Arch-based (although I’m planning to switch my laptop over to Fedora).
What’s your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS?
Debian stable is a very solid choice for a server OS.
It depends on how you’re going to host your services though. Are you going to use containers (what kind), VMs, a mix of the two, install directly on the host system (and if so where do you plan to source the packages)?
I’ve kept my Debian system very basic, installed latest Docker from the official apt repo, and I’ve installed almost every service in a docker container. Only things installed directly on host are docker, ssh, nfs and avahi.
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I run Debian on my server and while it’s sometimes annoying how old a lot of packages are, it’s ridiculously stable.
How annoying do you find the outdated packages?
Mostly not at all but sometimes I want to try some new features and that’s when it gets annoying. Right now, I’d like to try passing encoding capability from my APU to a VM I’m hosting but it requires Mesa 23 and Debian is on 22.
You can use the backports repository fairly easily. I did for the kernel and had no issues.
Thanks for the tip but Mesa is not in the backports repo.
What surprised me with debain, it comes as a very minimal installation, so you will have to set up stuff like sudo yourself.
That’s 23s of your life wasted, but how would you set it?
NOPASSWD?That’s not secure by most experts, people do it as convenience, but say rogue code was run by user and sudo was open, … done your system belongs to someone else now.
