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submitted 1 year ago by wiikifox@pawb.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] ptman@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Have sent you an example on matrix

[-] bluespin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

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