6 Reasons Why People Love to Use Arch Linux
Arch Linux has a cult status among desktop Linux users. What makes Arch Linux so popular? Why people use Arch Linux? This article answers these questions.| It's FOSS
Archinstall 3.0.10 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available for download with stable LVM (Logical Volume Manager) support and other changes. The post Arch Linux Installer’s LVM (Logical Volume Manager) Support Is Out of Beta appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article without permission. This RSS feed is intended for readers, not scrapers.| 9to5Linux
Arch Linux 2025.09.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for September 2025, powered by Linux kernel 6.16 and featuring an improved installation experience. The post First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.16 Is Now Available for Download appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article without permission. This RSS feed is intended for readers, not scrapers.| 9to5Linux
Arch Linux has a cult status among desktop Linux users. What makes Arch Linux so popular? Why people use Arch Linux? This article answers these questions.| It's FOSS
Learn what you can do with pacman commands in Linux, how to use them to find new packages, install and upgrade new packages, and clean your system.| It's FOSS
Archinstall 3.0.10, a guided installer for Arch Linux, fixes PipeWire package ordering and improves GRUB-Btrfs setup.| Linuxiac
Arch Linux introduces Bumpbuddy, a new tool that automatically tracks upstream releases and flags outdated packages for maintainers.| Linuxiac
В попередній частині – Arch Linux: установка у 2025 – диски, шифрування, встановлення системи – встановили саму систему, тепер дійшли руки до робочого оточення. Пройдемось по загальним налаштуванням Arch linux (точніше, будь-якого Linux), потім поговоримо про вибір Desktop Environments, і власн...| RTFM: Linux, DevOps та системне адміністрування
Things I've had to do on my PineTab2 to get various features working and/or usable.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
What is AUR in Arch Linux? How do I use AUR? Is it safe to use? This article explains it all.| It's FOSS
No one has time for a 30 GB update, right?| It's FOSS
How exactly do resources.requests and resources.limits in a Kubernetes manifest works “under the hood”, and how exactly will Linux allocate and limit resources for containers? So, in Kubernetes for Pods, we can set two main parameters for CPU and Memory – the spec.containers.resources.requests and spec.containers.resources.limits fields: resources.requests: affects how and where a Pod will be… Read More » The post Kubernetes: Pod resources.requests, resources.limits, and Linux cgroup...| RTFM: Linux, DevOps, and system administration
Even though the changes were announced in emails from Arch Linux, for some reason, many people have had problems with the latest update: in the Arch Linux subreddits on Reddit, people are complaining like “Everything is broken, what should I do now?” Let’s see how to complete the upgrade and what exactly has changed.… Read More » The post Arch Linux: linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ exists in filesystem first appeared on RTFM: Linux, DevOps, and system administration.| RTFM: Linux, DevOps, and system administration
Contents: Install GNOME 49 Alpha in Arch Step 1: Enable GNOME Unstable repository Step 2: Update & Install GNOME 49 Step 3: Switch display manager (optional) Want to try out the latest GNOME Desktop 49 that’s still in development? Here how to do the job in Arch Linux. GNOME 49 desktop environment is scheduled to […]| FOSTips
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 is now available for download with a long-awaited requested feature and other improvements.| 9to5Linux
Встановлення Arch Linux у 2025 році - розбивка дисків з fdisk, шифрування з LUKS, налаштування ядра| RTFM: Linux, DevOps та системне адміністрування | De...
Yay is one of the most popular AUR helper for dealing with packages from Arch User Repository. Learn to install it in Arch Linux.| It's FOSS
Here are some of the most popular AUR helpers you can use to get access to the vast number of packages available from the Arch community.| It's FOSS
How to back up your servers with borg? One way to do it, as documented by the fine borg documentation, is to use a pull backup using sshfs. The idea is to mount the remote filesystem in a local directory, chroot into it, and run borg inside the chroot.| Relentless Coding
In the previous article I investigated how to create a reproducible image but ended up with only managing to create two identical image directories. In this article we'll end up with a fully bit-by-bit reproducible filesystem image! Some things have changed since the last post, mkosi now no longer creates …| Jelly's blog
I've blogged before about creating vagrant images using mkosi as part of an investigation to move image creation to mkosi but also as I will be giving a talk at All Systems Go about Arch Linux images mkosi and reproducibility. With reproducible images in this article I mean that anyone …| Jelly's blog
Arch Linux takes its bottom up approach very seriously and the system you start with has basically nothing but the bare essentials installed.| nielscautaerts.xyz
Last FOSDEM, there where some talks around mkosi using it for kernel hacking and systemd integration tests. These talks got me interested in mkosi, a systemd project for building OS images. After chatting some more with the maintainers, I considered the idea of moving the arch-boxes project to mkosi. (note …| Jelly's blog
Write up of the reproducible summit Three members of the Arch Linux team attended the Reproducible Build Summit 2018 in Paris this week to work together with the reproducible ecosystem to work on reproducible build issues. The other participants where from a lot of different projects and companies such as …| Jelly's blog
Over the past years I have written (unsuccessful) funding applications for free software projects, associated with the Arch Linux Operating System. This article is about my experiences with applying f| SleepMap
Having a full Linux mobile or tablet device has always interested me, to have an alternative to Android and use Arch Linux everywhere. Realistically I won't be able to give up Android on my phone, but what about tablet's? Phosh was developed to be a graphical user interface for mobile …| Jelly's blog
The reproducible build initiative has been started a long time ago by Debian and has been grown to include more projects. Arch is now also in the process of getting reproducible build support, thanks to the of hard work of Anthraxx, Sangy, and many more volunteers. In pacman git patches …| Jelly's blog
While in a discussion with my coworkers, a coworker brought up that they wanted to have automatic LUKS disk decryption on their desktop while it was at home. Normally they would use a passphrase to decrypt the LUKS volume but would prefer automatic decryption. There are multiple ways to achieve …| Jelly's blog
At the end of July, I had some days off and some more time to focus on some unreproducible packages in Arch Linux and get some of the issues resolved. This post goes through the resolved issues by category. gzipped man pages By default if a manpage is compressed with …| Jelly's blog
For monitoring the Arch Linux infrastructure we've moved on from Zabbix to Prometheus as it fits more into our infrastructure is code goal. This required some research into how we could achieve the same monitoring with Prometheus. Our Zabbix setup monitored Host, MySQL, Borg and Arch Linux related metrics. For …| Jelly's blog
A lot has happened since the last reproducible builds summit in Marrakesh 2019, this blog post is a summary of the progress made in 2020 of everything related to getting reproducible builds in Arch Linux. archlinux-repro Also known as repro this tool allows one to rebuild a package and check …| Jelly's blog
Grafana Loki on Arch Linux Grafana's has started a new project called loki as a prometheus for logs solution. For Arch Linux's infrastructure we where thinking about introducing logging altering for our services. Which sparked my curiosity into Loki as it looked like a simple, easy solution after watching the …| Jelly's blog
As Arch Linux we are working on reproducible builds for a while and have a continuous test framework rebuilding package updated in our repositories. This test does an asp checkout of a package and builds it twice in a schroot, we do not try to reproduce actual repository packages yet …| Jelly's blog
The reproducible builds project was invited to join the mini DebConf Hamburg sprints and conference part. I attended with the intention to get together to work on Arch Linux reproducible test setup improvements, reproducing more packages and comparing results. The first improvement was adding JSON status output for Arch Linux …| Jelly's blog
Arch sign off tool Since some time Arch has been letting users become testers which can sign off packages in [testing] repository's. The idea behind allowing users and not only the Arch team sign off packages as known good is that packages can be moved earlier or bugs and issues …| Jelly's blog
A blast from the past, the Arch User Magazine It's almost 10 years ago that Ghost1227 created the Arch User Magazine and this week I got reminded about it's existence. I found that the original domain where the magazine was hosted was no longer owned by Ghost1227, but by using …| Jelly's blog
Archweb updates The Arch Linux website has been updated and it's search functionality was expanded to make it able to find the 'archlinux-keyring' by searching for 'archlinux keyring'. This was contributed by an external!. Another small visual improvement was made by removing some empty spaces in provides. AURpublish AURpublish was …| Jelly's blog
Yet another shoutout for FrOSCon, which will be held 25th and 26th of August. Arch Linux will have a devroom with talks so far about Linux Pro Audio and our general Infrastructure / Reproducible build. Thanks to Stickermule there will be Arch Linux sticker to hand out.| Jelly's blog
Archive cleanup The Arch Archive has been cleaned up, the discussion started in this mail thread. The archive server was running out of space and therefore needed some cleaning, all packages which are not required for reproducible builds where removed (and where from 2013/2014/2015). Packages from these years …| Jelly's blog
Pacman release Finally! A new pacman release, this version adds some critical bits for reproducible builds and the pacman repository has been shed of misc tools which are now in pacman-contrib. More details in the changelog and on reddit BUILDINFO Rebuild For reproducible builds, every package in the repository build …| Jelly's blog
Arch Linux @ FOSDEM Arch Linux Trusted Users, Developers and members of the Security team have been at FOSDEM. Next year there will be more stickers hopefully and maybe a talk, but it was great to meet some Arch users in real life, discuss and even hack on the Security Tracker …| Jelly's blog
Arch Linux @ 34C3 Arch Linux Trusted Users, Developers and members of the Security team have been at 34C3 and even held a small meetup. There was also an #archlinux.de assembly where people from the irc channel could meet each other. Seeing how much interest there was this year, it …| Jelly's blog
This is the second edition of Arch monthly, mostly due to the lack of time to work on Arch weekly. So let's start with the roundup of last month. New TU David Runge David Runge applied to become a Trusted User and was accepted! He mentioned to have a huge …| Jelly's blog
This is the first edition of Arch monthly, mostly due to the lack of time to work on Arch weekly. So let's start with the roundup of last month. Two new Trusted Users Alad and Foxboron joined the Trusted Users team! Congrats! Archweb signoff helper This has been around for …| Jelly's blog
This is the second edition of Arch weekly, a small weekly post about the news in the Arch Linux community. Official docker image for Arch Linux! After reporting about the Arch-boxes project last week. Pierres created the Arch Linux organization on Docker and created a base image. The docker build …| Jelly's blog
This is the first edition of Arch weekly, a small weekly post about the news in the Arch Linux community. Hopefully this will be a recurring weekly blog post! linux-hardened appears in [community] After the disappearance of linux-grsec from the repos due to the Grsecurity project not providing the required …| Jelly's blog
The NanoPI NEO is a little 8 dollar ARM device with an interesting form factor and specifications. 512/256 MB ram (single slot) Cortex-A7 Quad-Core USB 2.0 100 Mbps ethernet 40 x 40 mm board size SD card slot Mainline support FriendlyARM provides an UbuntuCore image, but of course …| Jelly's blog
I posted a guide on getting Arch Linux ARM on the BananaPi last week. Now I was eager to get a mainline kernel working on the BananaPi for some ARM hacking and testing of new patches. In this post I'll describe the steps required to get a mainline kernel booted …| Jelly's blog
