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The long search is over.\u00a0 I’ve finally decided on my official Linux server distro: ArchLinux.\u00a0 I’ve spent the last few weeks (and many, many hours) trying out a few different distros and have found the one I want to stick with.\u00a0 Recently, I installed a trial copy of Windows Home Server after hearing a few recommendations.\u00a0 This meant that my Linux server (where this blog is hosted, among other sites) would have to make room for another OS.\u00a0 I don’t think I could survive without a Linux server, though, so I chose to take the virtualization route.\u00a0 I tried out a few different virtual server programs and found Microsoft’s Virtual Server the most useful.\u00a0 I wanted to use Sun’s VirtualBox, but Microsoft’s product has a web interface for configuring and controlling your servers: very cool.\u00a0 Besides, it also automatically starts up as a service, just like it should.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I would have used the same distro I had on the machine before installing Windows Home Server, but my version of Ubuntu didn’t seem to like being virtualized and it would freeze nearly every morning.\u00a0 I got tired of reseting it, so I started looking for more distros.\u00a0 I tried Fedora: too bloated — especially for a virtual server.\u00a0 I tried Debian, but it didn’t like living in a virtual environment either; it couldn’t get anything from the repositories.\u00a0 Then I found Arch (thanks to Antony<\/a>).\u00a0 It was just what I wanted: robust, but simple.\u00a0 Simple meaning complexity, not ease of use.\u00a0 Arch is not for the faint-hearted.\u00a0 I consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user, so I gave it a whirl.\u00a0 As you can see, Arch doesn’t have the freezing problems Ubuntu had.\u00a0 I’m glad I finally found something that works well.\u00a0 Arch is here to stay.<\/p>\n The long search is over.\u00a0 I’ve finally decided on my official Linux server distro: ArchLinux.\u00a0 I’ve spent the last few weeks (and many, many hours) trying out a few different distros and have found the one I want to stick with.\u00a0 Recently, I installed a trial copy of Windows Home Server after hearing a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[182,180,181],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/archlinux.png\" "\\"archlinux\\"")
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