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Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Re: Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Post by tclancy »

coreyburnsdev wrote: post #13

can't imagine a world in which I'd download a little known distro to put on my home network and use as a server. also, doesn't fedora already have something like this already?

Game’s truly gone. I remember when all we did was try to find the most obscure indie band of a Linux distro, form emotional attachments and then argue their merits.

Re: Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Post by c7b »

cassianoleal wrote: post #20
TacticalCoder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nothing is bug free, and telling people they will never need to upgrade/patch/maintain a system is a well-paved path to compromised systems. Of course nothing is. But there's a reason projects like "Talos" do exist: no terminal, no SSH, no package manager (how do we like package managers like NPM lately btw?), read-only filesystem, definitely no systemd, etc. And then a minimal number of executables. This does, def…

IncusOS is another - read-only root FS, interactions with the system exclusively through the Incus API, no package manager, blue-green OS updates (à la Steam Deck / Home Assistant OS). Talos on IncusOS is likely a very interesting stack that I intend to play with hopefully in the near future. https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/docs/main/

How would you say it compares to nixOS?

Re: Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Post by nullsanity »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #11
happyopossum wrote: post #5

As long as there is software, you cannot shortcut the need for maintenance. Nothing is bug free, and telling people they will never need to upgrade/patch/maintain a system is a well-paved path to compromised systems.

I've been telling people this for years. Yes, you can self host, but you'll end up with a SLA on your spare time as well as you working hours. I've long since thrown everything with a user count > 1 out.

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Re: Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Post by abrookewood »

c7b wrote: post #34
cassianoleal wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IncusOS is another - read-only root FS, interactions with the system exclusively through the Incus API, no package manager, blue-green OS updates (à la Steam Deck / Home Assistant OS). Talos on IncusOS is likely a very interesting stack that I intend to play with hopefully in the near future. https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/docs/main/

How would you say it compares to nixOS?

They are vastly different. Incus is aimed at providing a minimal, immutable Os for the hosting of VMs & containers. nixOS provides a full linux OS that is reproducible and declarative.

Re: Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Post by abrookewood »

Congrats on launching something (more than most of us will ever manage), but I am struggling to see why I would use this over something with more backing. There are a number of similar projects that have a very similar goal, but have the support of a large community and/or commercial sponsor:

- Flatcar Container Linux: An open-source, immutable OS designed for automatic updates and large-scale container deployments.

- Fedora CoreOS: A, secure, automatically updating operating system designed for running containerized applications, succeeding the original CoreOS.

- Talos Linux: A modern, immutable, security-focused OS dedicated entirely to Kubernetes.

- IncusOS: an immutable OS solely designed around safely and reliably running Incus.

I think you need to more clearly explain how this is different. Again, congrats on the launch though.

Re: Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Post by jvican »

abrookewood wrote: post #38

Congrats on launching something (more than most of us will ever manage), but I am struggling to see why I would use this over something with more backing. There are a number of similar projects that have a very similar goal, but have the support of a large community and/or commercial sponsor: - Flatcar Container Linux: An open-source, immutable OS designed for automatic updates and large-scale container deployments.…

I use IncusOS in my homelab. It's a joy to set up and use.

Migrated from Proxmox and manage all my VMs. Heavily use coding assistants to automatically set things up through the IncusOS CLI, translate Docker-Compose images to Incus, write bash scripts to automate launching new containers to use `--dangerously-skip-permissions` without fear of repercussions, etc.

What I love the most about it is that it's possible to manage IncusOS with declarative files, so you always have visibility into networking setups, resource configuration, etc.

Highly recommend checking IncusOS out if you have similar use cases!

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