I want to run a small VM running a very low-maintenance distro for the sole purpose of running a private VPN (preferably WireGuard).

I do this because I want to access all of my ESXi VMs from WAN.

I’m thinking Fedora Server because it has roling-release, so I don’t have to reinstall, I guess? But I want it to be very stable, because if it fails I lose access to ALL my VMs.

  • Mordikan@kbin.earth
    73·
    2 days ago

    If its solely for setting up a wireguard server, it doesn’t need to be rolling release. Nothing should really need changing.

    1. Alpine Linux due to it being lightweight and hardened
    2. Arch Linux due to it being lightweight and fast
    3. Rocky 9 due to HAProxy in case you decide to turn this into a DIY datacenter :)
    • paper_moon@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’m not sure I would agree for arch if the OP wants low maintenance. I’ve never run it myself, but the way I’ve heard arch described is the further you go without regular updates the more likely you are to have a problem when you do update.

      • Mordikan@kbin.earth
        12·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, GPG keys expire, but that happens with all package management systems if left alone long enough. I mean you’d have to maintain like 3 packages (linux, wireguard-tools, archlinux-keyring). In Debian you’d have to maintain the kernel, debian-archive-keyring, and wireguard-tools. Its the same.