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Giving some updates about what is currently on my mind, since the last post has been long time ago

This is another post dedicated to recent changes to some of our infrastructure - this time tackling the repository setups, particularly those containing PKGBUILDs or sources for our packages 🔧

This is a summary about the most recent major server maintenance we had at Garuda Linux / Chaotic-AUR 🔧

As our infrastructure is growing, the number of services and tasks is increasing as well. This can be tedious and time-consuming, especially when you have to deal with a lot of servers - enter Ansible! Ansible allows automating tasks on a wide range of platforms, including Linux, Windows, and Mac. 🔧

As Chaotic-AUR is the repository (kind of an app store for Linux distributions) of Garuda Linux and one of the user repositories with the most (and most useful) packages out there I decided to help with maintenance and provide another mirror for it. Especially a massive increase of web traffic on the main server made this necessary!

For about 2 years I have been using Linux. Since the beginning, I loved the way things work on Linux, the simplicity and customizability - something unheard of in among windows users. A long time of these two years I spent distro hopping, searching for the optimal Linux distribution for my requirements. 🦅

Recently we got to know that Mozilla no longer supports free internet. Their browser, Firefox, collects a lot of telemetry by default. Since using Chromium-based browsers is not an alternative (There shouldn’t be a single browser engine dictating web standards! 👀), a better solution had to be found!