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Revision as of 08:41, 23 December 2020

The most popular choice here is by far any flavour of Linux. BSD is sometimes considered better. Using MacOS will earn you derision from Linux and Windows sysadmins alike. Don't use Windows.

Linux based

Debian

Virtualisation

Proxmox

Ubuntu

CentOS

Open Media Vault

unRAID

BSD based

FreeBSD

OpenBSD

TrueNAS CORE

NAS Centric

NAS-centric operating system for a home server. Software designed for retards, with simple GUIs to set up your services.

Xpenology

A free version of the OS Synology uses for their NAS products. Obviously you won't get any support from Synology if you use this.

Supports differently sized physical disks and adding hard drives to expand as needed.