freebsd
Experimenting with FreeBSD and comments on the future of Invidious
I’ve always admired the BSD family of operating systems even though I mostly use Linux. I currently run a Debian Linux server that hosts a bunch of alternative services like PrivateBin, Invidious, RedLib, etc. Most of these require the use of Docker and/or systemd. Docker doesn’t seem to be a hard requirement, though, because inside the Dockerfile there has got to be a Unixy way to setup and run the services. So I’m planning on spinning up a temporary FreeBSD VPS on Vultr and experimenting with getting those services running without Docker. If all goes well, I will convert my main Debian server to FreeBSD. One thing I would miss, however, is FirewallD. BSD’s PF (Packet Filter) firewall doesn’t have a command-line interface to interact with firewall policies. As far as I know everything goes into a /etc/pf.conf configuration file. I’d have to look into PF configuration options that are effectively the same as the ones I use with FirewallD.