Lemdro.id

-37 points

9 months ago

Hello ProxMox here I come!

Proxmox is questionable open-source, performs poorly and will most likely end up burning the free users at some point. Get get yourself into LXC/LXD/Incus that does both containers and VMs, is way more performant and clean and is also available on Debian’s repositories.

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timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works

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20 points

9 months ago

You know, you can recommend lxd and whatever without putting out FUD about proxmox and other tech.

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-7 points

9 months ago

While I get your point… I kind of can’t: https://lemmy.world/comment/7476411

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz

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6 points

9 months ago

What about Proxmox makes its license questionable?

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moonpiedumplings@programming.dev

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5 points

9 months ago

Nothing that is more questionable than lxd, which now requires a contributor license agreement, allowing canonical to not open source their hosted versions, despite lxd being agpl.

Thankfully, it’s been forked as incus, and debian is encouraging users to migrate.

But yeah. They haven’t said what makes proxmox’s license questionable.

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-1 points

9 months ago

Thankfully, it’s been forked as incus, and debian is encouraging users to migrate.

Yes, the people running the original LXC and LXD projects under Canonical now work on Incus under the Linux Containers initiative. Totally insulated from potential Canonical BS. :)

The move from LXD to Incus should be transparent as it guarantees compatibility for now. But even if you install Debian 12 today and LXD from the Debian repository you’re already insulated from Canonical.

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-4 points

9 months ago

First they’re always nagging you to get a subscription. Then they make system upgrades harder for free customers. Then the gatekeep you from the enterprise repositories in true RedHat fashion and have important fixes from the pve-no-subscription repository multiple times.

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz

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2 points

9 months ago

As long as the source code is freely available, that’s entirely congruent with GPL, which is one of the most stringent licenses. You can lay a lot of criticism on their business practices, and I would not deploy this on my home server, but it haven’t seen any evidence that they’re infringing any licenses.

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-2 points

9 months ago

Okay if you want to strictly look at licenses per si no issues there. But the rest of what I described I believe we can agree is very questionable, takes into questionable open-source.

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