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Lightweight distro for home server? (pawb.social)

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

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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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[–] wiikifox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not asking for a distro made specifically for servers. I'm asking for a distro that fits what I specified in the post body. Most people here said Debian, and I'm probably going with that as it's my daily driver anyways.

[–] mcepl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

that as it’s my daily driver anyways.

That is in my opinion the most important one.