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oxymoron

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Registered: 2009-03-16

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Archserver project: Is it official?

Hi,

I have a simple homeserver that was running debian lenny until it fell over, I think it was because the HDD was full. Instead of fixing it I installed the new hardware I was meaning to use for months and then proceeded to setup Arch on it. I run Arch on my desktop with gnome and love the KISS approach over a distro like ubuntu, which I now find confusing I might add.

I post a lot on another forum and a gentleman on there suggested "Archserver" project, is it an official project or is it a fork? Anyone using it? Anyone like it?

My homeserver only runs sabnzbd, mediatomb, transmission-cli, SAMBA and NFS, so nothing worth crying over if the server needs fixing one day. Normal Arch runs great on it so i'm reluctant to start again unless people say "archserver" project is brilliant.

Hope I have not broken forum rules :s

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Archserver project: Is it official?

no it's not official.
But for a home server, just use "normal" arch. Works great.

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jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

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Re: Archserver project: Is it official?

My homeserver only runs sabnzbd, mediatomb, transmission-cli, SAMBA and NFS, so nothing worth crying over if the server needs fixing one day. Normal Arch runs great on it so i'm reluctant to start again unless people say "archserver" project is brilliant.

This is pretty much exactly what my arch home server runs and it's been fine for the past year or so. Nice to see some crossover from the 'other forum' also

Jack.

austin.rbn

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Registered: 2010-01-23

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Re: Archserver project: Is it official?

[...] so nothing worth crying over if the server needs fixing one day. Normal Arch runs great on it so i'm reluctant to start again unless people say "archserver" project is brilliant.

It sounds like you already have made the right choice. If you are willing to periodically do some minor maintenance to keep up with the few updates which require it, then just use normal Arch. It's not like the stable upstream releases of the few packages you're using are going to often cause any problems.

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cool

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Registered: 2008-09-12

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Re: Archserver project: Is it official?

Get the LTS kernel and you should be fine

fukawi2

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Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Archserver project: Is it official?

http://www.archserver.org/

ArchServer is an unofficial community project. It is still in development. There is currently no stable release suitable for production usage yet.

We would love some testers though

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