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Everyone (and their mother) have been trying to convince me that I should use one of my less loaded servers to be a Fediverse node. However, all Fediverse software packages I checked only support being installed on complicated systemd + Docker machines. My servers don't have either of those, because neither systemd nor Docker even exist on OpenBSD and illumos.

I know that it would be possible to manually install (e.g.) Lemmy, assuming that I won't ever need official support, but I wonder why the world outside a limited subset of the Linux ecosystem is - at most - an afterthought for Fediverse developers.

How can I help to change that?

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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is no “official support” for this. Is FOSS. You are on your own to run it. If my instance breaks I can’t just run to the Devs of the project to help fix it. It’s on me.

It’s a project run by two people. And to be fair to them they chose one of the most OS agnostic methods to help build it. You don’t need to use a specific distro, just tools.

You can port what’s needed over to BSD and do a PR to merge it, even if it’s just a BSD_Jails.md file. But it’s gonna take some know how.

Building a Lemmy instance on pretty much any Linux box is fairly easy and well documented though.

On a personal note, imho it does no good to be an OS evangelist. It’s as true for MacOs or Windows as it does for BSD. Use a tool for its strengths. I have BSD running my firewalls and even some storage, Linux running stuff, windows for things it excels at, and macos for stuff it works for.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you and I really don't want to sound like "finally use a decent system, unworthy Linux user". However, this sword has two edges: I don't necessarily want to be fobbed off with "Install Linux, you backward fool" either.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s fair. Id be interested to see a bsd port personally. You probably can do it without docker. But whether all the parts are ported is another question (ie pictrs). You may be able to compile them from source though. I’ve never used BSD for web apps, mostly just firewalls, storage and routing.

[–] zergling_man@lemmy.perthchat.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

haha PKGBUILD go brrrrr Install everything native, use system package manager, life's good. Surely openbsd has something similar, scanning AUR may be useful to you to filch PKGBUILDs.

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BSD isn't Linux though, a lot of these packages are entire systems that need many packages and are only supported in one main configuration. Otherwise instead of making social networking software you're catering to a hundred different environments. There's no real reason to run BSD for this stuff besides being a diehard tinkerer.

[–] zergling_man@lemmy.perthchat.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Almost as if distribution/packaging is actually a job.

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