[Bradford] Alternative to Arch

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Mike

You can either go for the Leap 15.1 server or the Tumbleweed server. The 
difference, as you say, is that Tumbleweed is a rolling release whereas Leap 
follows the release cycle of the Enterprise server.

In practice, I doubt it makes much difference if you are just interested in a 
server as most of the Tumbleweed updates are to GUI programs and tools like 
gcc, python etc. Each Leap version gets security releases and minor updates 
for whatever version of a program is installed; you only get a major version 
update with the next version of Leap. With Tumbleweed you get the major 
version updates when they happen.

John

On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:01:55 BST Moanin wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:56:56 BST Moanin via Bradford wrote:
> >> 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 Such as out of date GPG keys or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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> >> "Moanin" is a track wrtitten by Charles Mingus, first public recording
> >> was on his album "Blues and Roots", 1959.
> >> 
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