[arch-general] Kudos to the Arch devs!
Devs, As mentioned earlier, after my HD tanked, I did my first Gnome only install using the Arch 2010-05 install media. Except for my FU forgetting mkswap, the install is picture perfect. Further, since the radeon/dri/mesa modules are mature enough that they handle gpu downclocking during idle clock ticks, there is no further reason to hang onto the fglrx driver and limp suse 11.0 along on my laptops. Gnome 2.30 is near perfect, the packaging is, from what I can tell so far, perfect, and a simple 'rsync -au otherbox:/var/cache/pacman/pkg /var/cache/pacman' seals the deal. Great Job Devs. That brings my total Arch installs to 7, including my 2 primary servers. Arch has nailed what a distro should be and that's something worth jealously guarding against the pressures of change ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Hi, I would be interested to know your experience of running arch as server os. running I use distros like debian,CentOS etc. till now I have been scared of running arch as server. Please share your experience Regards, Gaurish Sharma
On 06/21/2010 09:40 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:
Hi, I would be interested to know your experience of running arch as server os. running I use distros like debian,CentOS etc. till now I have been scared of running arch as server.
Please share your experience
Regards, Gaurish Sharma
I'm obviously not the person you were replying to, but I've been running Arch for around 6 months on a web server with no problems at all (using Apache + MySQL + PHP then Lighttpd + PostgreSQL + PHP). I used to use Ubuntu, but recompiling PHP to turn GD back on every update was getting on my nerves. - Brendan Long
On 06/22/2010 09:10 AM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:
Hi, I would be interested to know your experience of running arch as server os. running I use distros like debian,CentOS etc. till now I have been scared of running arch as server.
Please share your experience
Regards, Gaurish Sharma
Even I've started using arch on the server (the second VPS, of my friend), (you know if you've read my thread limit posts, etc.) Arch makes a perfect distro for server I feel. It doesn't install stuff by default which makes things rock solid. The admin knows what is installed and what not, so troubleshooting is easy in case someone hacks in through a security hole. Also it is damn easy to use those PKGBUILD scripts from AUR to have custom compiled software under the same name, so it won't create the dependency issues. For example phpmyadmin depends on mysql-clients and php, you can have those packages with the same name, or under a custom name with provides=() in the PKGBUILDs of php and mysql. So binaries can be self compiled for optimization and use scripts like pma, python ones, etc. directly from the repos. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Excerpts from Gaurish Sharma's message of Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:10 +0530:
I would be interested to know your experience of running arch as server os. running I use distros like debian,CentOS etc. till now I have been scared of running arch as server.
Please share your experience
I'm using one Arch server as a Samba domain controller (3 years) for ~30 workstations (mostly running Windows XP), file server (including server-based Windows applications), SVN server and my second Arch server is used (also for 3 years) as ftp server, http+php server and Flyspray issue tracker. Everything work fine, but I'm doing updates only ones in 2-3 months. Cheers, Sergey
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:44:44 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Great Job Devs. That brings my total Arch installs to 7, including my 2 primary servers. Arch has nailed what a distro should be and that's something worth jealously guarding against the pressures of change ;-)
I can't say that I totally agree with not changing. I still think we need a Security Team and signed packages to be considered secure enough to be deployed as a server OS. I'm working on providing the former, the latter will hopefully be done soon too. Ananda
participants (6)
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Ananda Samaddar
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Brendan Long
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David C. Rankin
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Gaurish Sharma
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Nilesh Govindarajan
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Sergey Manucharian