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		chrishenn on Jan 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On switching to Arch Linux Arch is great, but my favorite thing about it is that it stays out of the way. It led me to using new tools like XMonad and MPD. I could be perfectly happy with using the same setup on debian-unstable, but never would have got there without Arch. The package manager Arch uses, pacman, recently introduced package signing (albeit with a few bugs to iron out.) I wonder if more people will start to use Arch as a server OS now.

Adaptive on Jan 27, 2012 [–]

Linode has been offering it as a server image for a while now. I use it for a personal webserver, etc. Never had a critical upgrade problem, fwiw.

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