Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI Archinstall 4.0 is out today and just in time for the April 1 monthly refresh to the Arch Linux installer

Phoronix reporting on Archinstall 4.0 making the change from Curses to Textual:

www.phoronix.com/news/Archins...

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Phoronix with benchmarks of LoongArch on the Loongson 3B6000 CPU:

phoronix.com/review/arch-...

GitHub - Firstp1ck/Pacsea: Fast TUI for searching, inspecting, and queueing pacman/AUR packages. Fast TUI for searching, inspecting, and queueing pacman/AUR packages. - Firstp1ck/Pacsea

Check out Pacsea, a Ratatui based TUI for Arch / AUR package search, inspection, and general management. Integrated security scanning for AUR packages is a novel and welcome feature.

github.com/Firstp1ck/Pa...

Arch Linux Makes Its WSL Image Fully Reproducible Across Builds Arch Linux has made its official WSL image fully reproducible, ensuring bit-for-bit identical builds using archived repositories and normalized timestamps.

linuxiac reporting on Arch's WSL Image. Now Fully Reproducible Across Builds:

linuxiac.com/arch-linux-m...

Arcadian Computers (RKDN) on X: "We heard people might need RAM because of the supply crunch. We've got you team: https://t.co/BBiY1G4DAQ" / X We heard people might need RAM because of the supply crunch. We've got you team: https://t.co/BBiY1G4DAQ

lol, RAM prices keep going up, might have to DM:

x.com/ArcadianComp...

Archinstall 3.0.12 & Pacman 7.1 Released For Arch Linux Users Kicking off November for Arch Linux users happen to be the releases of Pacman 7.1 as well as Archinstall 3.0.12.

New Archinstall and Pacman released, Phoronix reporting:

www.phoronix.com/news/Archins...

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Looks like the recent AUR DDoS has subsided:

stats.uptimerobot.com/vmM5ruWEAB

DHH's take on the matter for reference:

x.com/dhh/status/1...

That is a great setup!

First Arch Linux ISO Release Powered by Linux 6.15 Is Now Available for Download - 9to5Linux Arch Linux 2025.07.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for July 2025, powered by Linux kernel 6.15.

9to5linux.com/first-arch-l...

Arcadian Computers (RKDN) on X: "To continue expanding our storage offerings through @IagonOfficial we made a couple purchases yesterday! This will be the largest array we've created so far, and with non-uniform drive sizes it will be a combination of RAID-10 and LVM to present a unified filesystem to the Iagon https://t.co/r4xVy5K45c" / X To continue expanding our storage offerings through @IagonOfficial we made a couple purchases yesterday! This will be the largest array we've created so far, and with non-uniform drive sizes it will be a combination of RAID-10 and LVM to present a unified filesystem to the Iagon https://t.co/r4xVy5K45c

Arch Linux powering gigantic storage arrays: x.com/ArcadianComp...

If you haven't updated Arch in the last 100 days and you are running into a dependency conflict with the "rest" package when you attempt to run pacman -Syy and pacman -Syu the solution in many cases is simply: "pacman -R rest"

It is worth reading bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.ph... to understand why.

Arch Linux Installer Adds Labwc & Niri Wayland Compositor Options Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer.

Archinstall 3.0.5 is out, and Phoronix has coverage of the new features:

www.phoronix.com/news/Archins...

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That is the core of it. Redis will get moved to AUR, so Valkey it is. As a fork of Redis it is pretty much a drop in replacement. Same API, protocol, and command structures.

Arch Linux Is The Latest Distribution Replacing Redis With Valkey Arch Linux is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork.

Phoronix reporting on Arch joining the growing trend of replacing Redis with Valkey: www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Li...

Samba on Arch, awesome.

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.3 Improves Limine Bootloader Support - 9to5Linux Archinstall 3.0.3 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with improved support for the Limine bootloader, new options, and more.

9to5linux reporting on the release of Archinstall 3.0.3:

9to5linux.com/arch-linux-i...

That is awesome, we built so many systems on that exact motherboard.

DeepSeek R1 32B running on Arch, on older AMD GPUs:

x.com/ArcadianComp...

Very cool, will check it out.

Arch Linux Had A Great Year With Valve's Continued Backing, EndeavourOS & CachyOS Boost The Arch Linux project appears to have enjoyed a rather robust and successful 2024 with Valve continuing to make use of it as a base for their SteamOS distribution and now engaging more with upstream ...

Phoronix reporting on Arch's best year yet:

www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Li...

Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Landed in Arch's Repos Arch Linux users can now upgrade to the new, sleek, lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop environment only a week after its release.

Just in time for the holidays, linuxiac reports that the latest version of Xfce is now available :

linuxiac.com/xfce-4-20-de...

Nous ne sommes pas un canal de support officiel pour Arch Linux, juste des utilisateurs enthousiastes. Cela étant dit, nous avons installé Postgres 17 sur Arch nous-mêmes en utilisant l'AUR :

aur.archlinux.org/packages/pos...

We customize it for NAS / Virtualization Servers, and we've always installed the "manual" way for maximum flexibility, but install scripts are great for getting new users to try things out. Manjaro is based on Arch, and it has a really intuitive installer.

Last Arch Linux ISO Release for 2024 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12 and Archinstall 3.0 - 9to5Linux Arch Linux 2024.12.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for December 2024 powered by Linux kernel 6.12.

9to5Linux covering the latest Arch ISO with kernel 6.12 and an updated archinstall.

9to5linux.com/last-arch-li...

Linux Magazine News

New Linux kernel patch introduces a new Linux boot parameter allows forced CPU mitigation
www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/...
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Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license

Phoronix reporting on Arch's move to the 0BSD (Zero-Clause BSD) license for package sources. The license would apply only to files such as PKGBUILD, .install, .desktop, etc, which were previously unlicensed. This aligns with the goals of Arch's RFC 40:

www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Li...

Those are truly the days when we take our skills to the next level, well done!