[arch-general] Kudos to the Arch devs!

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

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.

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