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Arch Linux vs RancherOS: What are the differences?

What is Arch Linux? A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

What is RancherOS? Fast, ultra-lightweight container OS. It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.

Arch Linux and RancherOS can be categorized as "Operating Systems" tools.

RancherOS is an open source tool with 5.48K GitHub stars and 553 GitHub forks. Here's a link to RancherOS's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Arch Linux and RancherOS

Simon Aronsson

Developer Advocate at k6 / Load Impact · Mar 7, 2020 | 7 upvotes · 278.8K views

Chose

Ubuntu

over

Arch Linux

Technology I use

At the moment of the decision, my desktop was the primary place I did work. Due to this, I can't have it blow up on me while I work. While Arch is interesting and powerful, Ubuntu offers (at least for me) a lot more stability and lets me focus on other things than maintaining my own OS installation.

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Pros of Arch Linux

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Large Community
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Package Manager
13
Customizable
12
Rolling Release
11
Arch User Repository
11
Bleeding Edge
10
Extensive Documentation
8
Arch Build System
7
X86_64 architecture supported
4
Can fix bugs yourself if you know how to

3
System-docker

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Cons of Arch Linux

Cons of RancherOS

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Systemd only
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Only X86_64 architecture is offically supported
1
No Guided Installation
1
System maintenance
1
Unstable
1
Comparatively fewer offically supported packages

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What is Arch Linux?

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

What is RancherOS?

It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.

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What are some alternatives to Arch Linux and RancherOS?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Kali Linux

It is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. It contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Manjaro

It is an accessible, friendly, open-source Linux distribution and community. Based on Arch Linux, it provides all the benefits of cutting-edge software combined with a focus on getting started quickly, automated tools to require less manual intervention, and help readily available when needed.

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