ArcoLinux -D -B 18.12

Arcolinuxb

The following desktops get a revised packages list for installation (calamares improvement, video drivers, touchscreen etc – same as other desktops, which have already a minimal version)

• budgie
• cinnamon
• deepin
• gnome

This will be the basis to create the next step a minimal version.

We have created the following MINIMAL desktops until now :

1. xfce-minimal
2. openbox-minimal
3. i3-minimal
4. bspwm-minimal
5. plasma-minimal
6. mate-minimal
7. awesome-minimal

We started making a series of tutorials of the Plasma desktop. We have created a specific ArcoLinuxB Plasma iso of 4.3GB and included some of the better games on it like Sauerbraten, Xonotic, Steam and Lutris. So not only learning but also FUN.

More information about this Plasma Challenge can be found here.

You can find all created articles on Plasma here.

We have added quite a collection of aliases. Since it would be a super long article I will refer to the articles themselves.

Concerning audio and video download from youtube and other sources. See here.

Get a list of all the most recent installed packages. See here.

Add your own aliases to .bashrc-personal. See here.

Cb to copy the content of your .bashrc-latest to .bashrc. See here.

We have 4 aliases to set our mirrors. See here.

An alias to clean up your system. See here.

After an update of pamac-aur we decided to change the icons for pamac – our graphical package manager.

After an update of Samba and the resulting error we got afterwards, we took a hard and long look at Samba. Even though we can fix Samba and made it work again, we believe that security wise it is better we do not install it.

The users, that will use Samba, can have it up and running under 1 minute with our scripts in ~/.bin.

As a result of this Samba update we have written a lot of articles on Samba and how to fix the issue. You can find them here.

In an attempt to figure out why some of our users have these watchdogs messages when shutting down and need to wait until the watchdog stops, we have not installed tlp and its services.
We have added a script to ArcoLinuxD github to install and activate it. Tlp is a service that is useful for laptops.

tlp can easily be installed and activated with these commands

sudo pacman -S tlp
sudo systemctl enable tlp.service
sudo systemctl enable  tlp-sleep.service

Thanks to a good understanding with the developer the inherits line now points to Surfn first and we have an official go to put it on the iso.

NEW Package hblock – 3party software

Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.

The suggestion of ArcoLinux to have a whitelist  (and a blacklist) has been implemented in this version. Together we move forward.

Read more here.

Knowledge sharing is what ArcoLinux does and loves….

How to create AUR-Lazuli  and how to enable vnstat for AUR-Lazuli.?

How to personalize AUR-Lazuli?

We have made another move to make us even more rolling than we already were.

We checked our archiso folder and moved all files to a package called arcolinux-system-config. Here we get quite technical what to do if you want to create an Arch Linux iso.

For people that do not do a clean install we have added a script called :

 ~/.bin/stay-rolling/18.11-to-18.12/stay-rolling-vx.sh

This script will delete the files on your root directory and replace them with exactly the same files but this time with the use of a package via pacman.

After running this script these files can be managed by us.

More info here.

We created a new package to show you the Arco logo in ufetch : ufetch-arco-git
It has been added to the fun script.

We have added the ArcoLinuxD scripts to install samba and network discovery.
Scripts 140 and 150.

~/.bin/main

Package updated:

• pamac-aur
• vivaldi
• vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg
• xcursor-breeze
• surfn
• sardi
• mintlocale
• inxi
• …

Packages removed:

• redshift

We will created the following MINIMAL desktops  and make tutorials about how I create them. I hope these tutorials will give you an insight how to create your own personal ArcoLinuxB iso and we hope you find your own workflow by watching the videos.

• budgie-minimal
• cinnamon-minimal
• deepin-minimal
• gnome-minimal

More information about this Plasma Challenge can be found here.

You can find all created articles on Plasma here.

We have dedicated an article to this particular topic since it is probably the FAQ number 1.

How to update any ArcoLinux or how to stay rolling

The full package list of the latest isos can always be found on github at this address :

ArcoLinux : https://github.com/arcolinux/arcolinux-iso/blob/master/archiso/packages.x86_64

ArcoLinuxD : https://github.com/arcolinux/arcolinuxd-iso/blob/master/archiso/packages.x86_64

ArcoLinuxB : https://github.com/arcolinux/arcolinuxb