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?
It would, but Docker doesn’t support it. I’m not sure how this means that the OS was worse.
They are, including its descendants (that includes the FreeBSD 4.8 fork DragonFly BSD).
How is “run this black box of arbitrary software, requiring a kernel module and numerous services” a superior deployment than
tar xf application.tgz
? Just because people do it, people could still do the wrong thing. Not every website is Facebook.No problem. I was genuinely curious.
Docker imposes additional attack vectors to the underlying system, a (for example) backdoored PHP application running inside an OpenBSD
chroot
(OpenBSD runs its built-in web server insidechroot
by default, so web applications can never reach anything outside the web folder anyway) does not, if I understand you correctly. I know that you consider the 1979 technologychroot
to be not modern, but I wonder which security feature is missing.What if nobody maintains the container anymore, although the software itself is still maintained?