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http://www.go2linux.org – Until now I have been always using Debian in my servers while Arch Linux as my Desktop and Laptop's operating systems. A week ago I decided to run Arch Linux in one of my servers, and yes, there are some differences, for instance Apache, where even the name of the daemon is different (Apache2 in Debian and httpd in Arch Linux). But the one that really made me investigate a little more was cron daemon, they not only have differences they are different programs in each distribution, of course you can install either on Debian or Arch the version the other one comes with as defaul (HowTos)

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