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Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it" by alexis-d on Friday September 16, 2011 @04:48PM (#3006248)
AUR is definitely one of the best thing for me, along with the rolling release scheme, the simplicity and the wiki.

But you say you use it on your servers? I'm not sure I would do it because Arch doesn't focus on stablity like Debian does, and sometimes update to core packages can break other packages, so... Not a big deal on your own computer but on a server? I would be happy to know if you have good reasons to use it on server :)

Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it" by Adaptive on Friday September 16, 2011 @05:06PM (#3006316)
I had precisely the same concerns.

I first set up a basic webserver on Linode since they had images for Arch. I was skeptical particularly because I've screwed stuff up on Arch systems during an "aggressive" update.

It's been rock solid and I deal with updates through a basic test methodology. I keep a mirror of the system on a VM and update that first. I am also very conservative about what packages I update.

I'm only running nginx and a couple basic services along with Haskell related packages to update my static website, so I can't speak to anything more complex than that, but I've been very happy so far.

The big advantage for me is the single mental model between my personal and server systems.

Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it" by spyrosk on Friday September 16, 2011 @07:16PM (#3006690)
Could you please elaborate on how you created the mirror?

I have almost the same setup (Arch, Linode, nginx) and although my VPS has been rock solid so far, I would like to have something like this for testing purposes.

Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it" by dorian-graph on Friday September 16, 2011 @08:55PM (#3006897)
I just checked out ArchServer and it looks like the project is winding down.

http://www.archserver.org/

Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it" by Adaptive on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:57PM (#3007097)
I'm not sure if Linode is using archserver but I don't believe they are. I don't see the advantage over vanilla arch isos.