[Bradford] Alternative to Arch

[Moanin]

Hi Folks,

I've been trying Arch as a distro to run a server on. I've found it 
excellent for all the standard stuff. But anything out of the ordinary 
is almost freakish. There's and AUR - Arch User Repository - and each 
time I've had to use it to date there has been a "security" problem 
which has made the installation fail. Such as out of date GPG keys or 
the "built" Zend engine not matching the "running" Zend engine.

With two packages now needing AUR based PHP modules, for which PHP 
breaks altogether or don't get used if the AUR is bypassed, I am now 
looking for a stable distro which doesn't need a complete backup and 
reinstall every few months. AUR can't match that although Arch itself is 
the ideal solution for non-AUR purposes.

The plan is to keep Arch on the current server and move those two 
packages onto a couple of new VPSs running another distro.

So, any recommendations please folks?

TIA

Mike
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