Ubuntu is not the most reliable distro to use, and their kernels tend to be a bit flaky, resulting in issues like https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand/issues/1637. It might be worthwhile to consider switching to a different distro, perhaps one that stays closer to mainline and has more active package managers, such as Arch.
zx2c4
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Ideally, it would be better to support multiple distro but it's a ton of work...
tiliarou
on 18 Sep 2019
Adding distro choice sounds even worse. The goal would be to pick something that actually works well and stick with it.
zx2c4
on 18 Sep 2019
But then you exclude a potentially huge amount of people from using streisand... Ubuntu is really "mainstream" and easy to start with compared to Arch.
tiliarou
on 18 Sep 2019
I'm referring to what's run on the server, not the client.
zx2c4
on 18 Sep 2019
Fair enough, but Arch is not available with as many provider as Ubuntu is.
In my case, I'm using basic Aruba Cloud and Oracle Always Free instances and Arch is not offered. But maybe the most used like AWS and alike always offer Arch ?
tiliarou
on 18 Sep 2019
a debian and freebsd version would be awesome !!!
freebsd is known for networking/firewall/vpn
debian is known to be very close to kernel and over years it introduces very few major changes like ubuntu (mainly bugfixes and security patches) so debian is ideal choice and offered everywhere
also ubuntu is not bad .. the bad part is that it works only with ubuntu 16.04 and nothing else at all
so at least make it fully compatible with most recent ubuntus..!
its0x08
on 18 Sep 2019
I think streisand is more or less a thing that you want to "set and forget". If it works reliably, why care which system is under? I never SSH'ed into my Streisand server and I hope I never need to.
lucasff
on 24 Sep 2019
i can understand ubuntu being flaky at times, but many cloud/vps providers don't offer images for *bsd or arch so it's sort of a diy type of situation. i'd be willing to take on different architecture support but it would be a huge chunk of time.
ghost
on 15 Oct 2019
As an update to this issue, we've managed to get WireGuard as a supported package in 18.10. So I'll close this issue and somebody can follow up on the "don't use ancient Ubuntu" one.
zx2c4
on 15 Oct 2019
at least support the 3-4 last major ubuntu releases so that every ubuntu vps at least would work!!!
not all my ubuntus work!!!!!
so thats a problem also
its0x08
on 17 Oct 2019
You can't support all ubuntu come on...
But at least the latest LTS would be great.
tiliarou
on 17 Oct 2019
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a debian and freebsd version would be awesome !!!
freebsd is known for networking/firewall/vpn
debian is known to be very close to kernel and over years it introduces very few major changes like ubuntu (mainly bugfixes and security patches) so debian is ideal choice and offered everywhere
also ubuntu is not bad .. the bad part is that it works only with ubuntu 16.04 and nothing else at all
so at least make it fully compatible with most recent ubuntus..!