Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:36:39 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS to replace FreeBSD Message-ID: <20210319193639.7afe5ad6@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20210319130249.000042a1@seibercom.net> References: <20210319101040.00005c35@seibercom.net> <CA%2BD9QhsjLtVui6exPDyG2CO5H8X-=YckFjCehHusG7eH_kk2sg@mail.gmail.com> <6054BE1B.50706@gmail.com> <20210319130249.000042a1@seibercom.net>
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:02:49 -0400, Jerry wrote: >In any case, I am thinking of either Fedora, Debian or Arch Linux. I >was just looking for recommendations from anyone who has used those >systems. I'm using Arch Linux for my daily desktop PC usage. While it's the most stable distro I've ever used, the real rolling release approach requires some special manual interventions from time to time. It's useful to join https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-announce to get informed of changes that might require manual intervention. I can't comment on using Arch Linux for server usage. A pro might be that auditing installed packages against known vulnerabilities can run automatically when doing updates by using a transaction hook. If you want to test your server's security you might be interested in https://blackarch.org/ in addition to an Arch install. RPM packages used by e.g. Fedora are rocket science to me. I'm a little bit used to DEB packages used by Debian and Ubuntu, but they are kind of rocket science, too. Arch packages are straight shell scripts, let alone that the attitude of Arch Linux is similar to FreeBSD, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System .
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