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.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    This might be a really great case for Rocky Linux though, as it also gets 10 years support.

    That happens to be my plan. I just started rolling out a few but I will have to bulldoze some servers because CloudStack doesn’t work in it yet. That means it’s upgrade-disco for my 9s in 5 years.

    Since 2002 I’ve been doing yum-cron for updates, but just at the side gig with up to 50 boxes. It used to be absolutely rock solid before systemd wrecked it, but it’s still pretty reliable.