I am writing a website in python, and I want deploy my website to a raspberry pi 4. I want it to be secure and lightweight. Which GNU/linux based OS should I use?
Which Linux distro should I put on my Raspberry Pi server?
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Re: Which Linux distro should I put on my Raspberry Pi server?
#2I've put Arch and Raspbian on a Pi. I know Raspbian is The Official Raspberry Pi distro, but gee whiz, Arch felt a lot more solid. I ended up using Raspbian to build a 4-node Kubernetes cluster, you just can't do it with Arch.
Re: Which Linux distro should I put on my Raspberry Pi server?
#3Just about any of them would do. It's like saying "I want to drive from Chicago to Minneapolis in a car. Which brand of car should I drive?" Just about all the car brands will get you there. ;)
At the end of the day, I recommend figuring out your preferred distro if you haven't already and going from there. Most major distributions like Ubuntu, openSuSE, and Fedora have Raspberry Pi versions.
If you're asking for optimizations, you'll find them in keeping as few processes running as possible, and you may get better speeds by hardware means such as purchasing a micro SD card with faster read-write capability or getting a cooling fan for the CPU.
Hope that helps, and props to making and running your own website from home! :)
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#4I'm using ubuntu server 20.04 along with micro-k8s to have a 3 node cluster for kubernetes at home.
Re: Which Linux distro should I put on my Raspberry Pi server?
#5I've put Arch and Raspbian on a Pi. I know Raspbian is The Official Raspberry Pi distro, but gee whiz, Arch felt a lot more solid. I ended up using Raspbian to build a 4-node Kubernetes cluster, you just can't do it with Arch.
I thought rolling release distros were bad for servers.
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#6Slackware. The thinking man's distribution. Trim it down ultralight purpose built, or keep it ready to go at a moment's notice. I've got Raspbian on mine, but once I get the 8 gig version, I think I may just pull the trigger on Slacking it up.
Then again, I may be completely insane, because I'm humming and hawing around building a Single System Image out of a pair of them and actually making something roughly analogous to a laptop to go along with it.
To be frank, you probably shouldn't take my advice. I'm clearly a glutton for punishment, and it may lead you to the darker corners of computing related insanity.
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#7I'm using ubuntu server 20.04 along with micro-k8s to have a 3 node cluster for kubernetes at home.
I have heard that Ubuntu had spyware that sent information to amazon. Also I have heard that Ubuntu has a lot of unnecessary software aka bloat. Was that just desktop ubuntu or also ubuntu server?
Re: Which Linux distro should I put on my Raspberry Pi server?
#8I'm using ubuntu server 20.04 along with micro-k8s to have a 3 node cluster for kubernetes at home.
I have heard that Ubuntu had spyware that sent information to amazon. Also I have heard that Ubuntu has a lot of unnecessary software aka bloat. Was that just desktop ubuntu or also ubuntu server?
That was the desktop version. I think they changed that "feature" to be opt in after the outcry.
Re: Which Linux distro should I put on my Raspberry Pi server?
#9Slackware. The thinking man's distribution. Trim it down ultralight purpose built, or keep it ready to go at a moment's notice. I've got Raspbian on mine, but once I get the 8 gig version, I think I may just pull the trigger on Slacking it up. Then again, I may be completely insane, because I'm humming and hawing around building a Single System Image out of a pair of them and actually making something roughly analogo…
I am not sure if I'm ready for that. I've been working on installing gentoo onto a laptop, and I can't get it to boot, so I don't think I want something that difficult. I like using the command line, but that thing (source based distros), it scares me.
Re: Which Linux distro should I put on my Raspberry Pi server?
#10I've put Arch and Raspbian on a Pi. I know Raspbian is The Official Raspberry Pi distro, but gee whiz, Arch felt a lot more solid. I ended up using Raspbian to build a 4-node Kubernetes cluster, you just can't do it with Arch.
I thought rolling release distros were bad for servers.
it's for homelab. most of stuff we do at homelab is the stuff we tend not to use on production :D