Tag: arch

  • Arch Linux Now Official WSL Image

    Arch Linux Now Official WSL Image

    Arch Linux now has an official WSL Image … …and it is officially (re)distributed by Microsoft! A few months ago, the eventuality of building and providing an official Arch Linux WSL image (Windows Subsystem for Linux – a Microsoft solution allowing to run Linux environments within Windows) was brought to the table within the Arch Linux staff.…

  • Valve collaborates with Arch

    Valve collaborates with Arch

    This is some pretty exciting news! The Arch Linux team have announced a new direct collaboration with Valve (Steam). Something that’s not too surprising, since Valve do fund a lot of open source work, and SteamOS for Steam Deck is built directly on Arch Linux so working more closely together makes a lot of sense.…

  • ArchInstall Speeds Up Mirror Loading, Downloads

    ArchInstall Speeds Up Mirror Loading, Downloads

    Archinstall 2.8.2 Arch Linux Installer Speeds Up Mirror Loading and DownloadWork continues on the new Curses-based menu with support for text input menu, scrolling functionality for previews, and more. Archinstall 2.8.2 has been released today as the latest version of the official menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution bringing some performance improvements and bug…

  • Closing in on Immutable Manjaro

    Closing in on Immutable Manjaro

    Manjaro Linux Starts Experimenting With An Immutable Offering Manjaro Linux could become a more reliable option with immutability at its core. What do you think? Immutable Linux distributions are a type of distro that are future-proof to quite some extent thanks to how they operate. In such systems, the core of the operating system is…

  • New Arch Linux ISO Release with Kernel 6.8

    New Arch Linux ISO Release with Kernel 6.8

    The archinstall menu-based installer received better support for unified kernel images and the KDE Plasma desktop environment. For those of you who want to install Arch Linux, there’s a new official ISO snapshot available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.8 and featuring an improved installation experience. That’s right, the Arch Linux devs were forced…