[Bradford] Alternative to Arch

[Moanin]

Hi John,

Thanks for the suggestion. Is this "Tumbleweed"? a rolling release? i.e. 
a similar idea to Arch but possibly a bit more civilised in its approach 
to its users? ;-)

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"Moanin" is a track wrtitten by Charles Mingus, first public recording 
was on his album "Blues and Roots", 1959.

On 26/05/2020 13:55, John Robert Hudson wrote:
> Hi Mike
> 
> The openSUSE server is rock solid; it is well documented and anything you want
> is almost certainly available from an openSUSE repo.
> 
> John
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> On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:56:56 BST Moanin via Bradford wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
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>> 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 Such as out of date GPG keys or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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>> "Moanin" is a track wrtitten by Charles Mingus, first public recording
>> was on his album "Blues and Roots", 1959.
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