how is the experience with #freebsd on a #server ?

[iodomi@infosec.exchange]

how is the experience with #freebsd on a #server ? i'd like to know before trying (as a newb to bsd systems and dedicated alpine user/admin)

[iodomi@infosec.exchange]

bsd users pls boost :)

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@iodomi I've been using FreeBSD on servers since FreeBSD 4.something. It... just works. I've got a couple of machines that were upgraded in place from 9 to 14 (9 was release in 2012, 14 is still supported). The base system config has barely changed in that time.

All third-party things (i.e. the things that the server exists to run) are all updated regularly and available in packages.

Podman is somewhat immature, but mostly works for container things. There are things like @BastilleBSD for managing jails, but they have largely missed the benefits of modern container orchestration and it feels more like just managing a bunch of machines.

[trashheap@tech.lgbt]

@iodomi Server uses cases tend to be where BSDs in general really shine, and FreeBSD is no exception. ANY angles your looking at specifically?

[davepolaschek@writing.exchange]

@iodomi Paging @stefano to the white courtesy phone. ;-)

[iodomi@infosec.exchange]

@trashheap just a basic homelab maybe with RAID 1 and some services like mail, www, etc

[trashheap@tech.lgbt]

@iodomi It definitely supports all of that.

ZFS is available out of the box, can handle whatever raid setup you like.

You can either run your services with the out of the box packages, or with a little extra footwork, setup what FreeBSD calls jails to setup containers for them to keep them isolated from one another.