Arch-based CachyOS is working on a new Server Edition aimed at NAS, workstations, and hosting providers, featuring hardened defaults and optimized packages.

Here is some news that both excited me and gave me pause. In its annual 2025 retrospective, published today, Arch-based CachyOS, widely popular among Linux gamers and heavily focused on performance optimization, reveals plans I did not expect: an expansion into the server space.

“In addition to our ongoing PGO and AutoFDO optimizations, we are developing a specialized ‘Server’ Edition for NAS, workstations, and server environments. We intend to provide a verified image that hosting providers can easily deploy for their customers. This edition will ship with a hardened configuration, pre-tuned settings, and performance-optimized packages for web servers, databases and more!”

  • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I love CachyOS, it’s a great and solid distro and by far the best Arch fork out there. I’ve never had issues with it

    As long you keep it updated. I left my machine powered off for 8 months and came back to being impossible to update it because the repo was missing library updates from months prior… I could never figure it out, and just nuked the install with bazzitte.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 days ago

      Had the same experience with EndeavourOS. Also switched to bazzite and haven’t looked back. There was a slight learning curve, but once you figure it out, you can do pretty much anything you want to/on it.