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!”
I used Arch for a couple years on servers. It was a pain in the ass with constant updates and breaking changes.
Most server applications aren’t looking for the latest updates and aren’t ready for them. Security updates alone don’t generally break applications.
I can’t imagine a hosted provider of any size wanting this sort of thing.