Based on Arch, arkOS is an operating system I’ve only just noticed. It sounds very promising for those who want to use their Pi as a home server. Here’s what the developers say about arkOS:

arkOS is a system for securely self-hosting your online life from the comfort of your home. It allows you to easily host your own website, email, “cloud” and more, all within arm’s reach. It does this by interfacing with existing software and allowing the user to easily update and change settings with a graphical interface. No more need to depend on external cloud services, which can be insecure “walled gardens” that require you to give up control over your data.

arkOS will have several different components that come together to make a seamless self-hosting experience possible on your Raspberry Pi. Each of these components will work with each other out-of-the-box, allowing you to host your websites, email, social networking accounts, cloud services, and many other things from your arkOS node.

Read more here and download the image

I think we’d probably be more comfortable if it was based on Raspbian, but Arch is well-respected and the feature set of the OS is extremely promising.