I'm has used the archlinux in all. My servers are running firewall, web, bd, proxy, DNS, dhcp and others. I'm used politics of update/upgrade, and mark some packages to not update/upgrade. I'm used only the oficial mirror in the pacman. I'm removed compilers and run hardenings. On Jun 26, 2012 9:31 AM, "Martin Cigorraga" <msx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys, may be you'll find ArchServer an interesting project, you'll find > more here: > www.archserver.org. > > The idea behind this project is to create a rock-solid, > server-oriented Arch flavor ready for > mass deployment with all the pros we love about Arch -easy to maintain, > lightweight, > ultra-stable, a joy to use, you know, The Arch Way- plus a well tested > repositories to > ensure no unexpected surprises (!) and the least manual intervention > possible while > remaining %100 Arch-compatible. > > While the project have been around for quite some time, the lack of people > involved together > with real-life matters of it's lead devs and mantainers made Arch Server > slide into an > induced sleep for some time... until now. > In my last email exchange with Daniel (aka ShadowBranch, current AS > maintainer), about a > month ago, he made clear it's matter of time until the project is up and > fully running again - > undoubtedly he is not having the necessary spare time to setup everything > again and relaunch > the project. > > So if you think ArchServer have any worthiness or is something interesting > -personally I would > _love_ to have a specific server-flavor of Arch- head on to the ML section > and subscribe > yourselves so you don't miss the grand reopening. > > P.S.: I know this may sound like a cheap NTM[0]/sell speach but it's > not! I'm just a fan of the > idea of having a server edition of AL ready to deploy and forgot about it > because Arch rocks > and I don't really want to work with any other distros that isn't > Arch-centric; also I find inefficient > to have to learn the ways of other distros -which I don't like how they do > things- in order to > work with a production server. > For now I set up my Arch Linux server boxes by hand as the next archer > does, but I'm sure it > would be plain awesome to have an Arch branch specifically fitted for the > server role, it could > save me countless hours on deployment, management, testing, servicing, > etc., and I'm sure > it can do the same for all the rest of the archers :) > > [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_marketing > > Cheers! >
