What is ArcoLinux? In short - get cape, wear cape and fly (see wallpaper)Become a Linux expert ArcoLinux is a distribution based on Arch Linux. ArcoLinux installs with a graphical installer (Calamares) with ease and comfort. There are 3 major projects. ArcoLinux is a...

The video gives you all the information you need. In short: Because of the move from the bike.seedhost server to the ant.seedhost server (see article Migration from SH3 to SH2) the url bike.seedhost returns a error 404 when trying to reach it. Because of that the isos...

Change the word bike into ant in the file /etc/pacman.d/arcolinux-mirrorlist. Sublime-text-4 is the ideal editor to save the file again. Then you will not see these messages again. Here is a video about the good news. It means we are getting more popular and we need...

ArcoLinux iso - the flagship - will keep all its software but no longer contains Openbox and i3wm. You can select Openbox or i3wm in Calamares if you want them. This iso has been renamed to ArcoLinuxL. XL as in extra large. All the software we need to develop our...

ArcoLinux Welcome AppThanks to the efforts of Brad Heffernan we now have an ArcoLinux Welcome App. It will give you an immediate overview of all the information that matters for our distribution. The app will start on a live usb with the message to use gparted to...

Improvements concerning all the sites consistency in home page homepage - gets list of the latest articles start here menu is consistently present start here is built up as first start guide for the user - begin at top and end at bottom of menu there is just one...

People often ask how do you become part of a linux community like ArcoLinux. My answer is always the same: be passionate about what you do get engaged become part of the community - forums, telegram, discord, social media, ... do the work without being asked betatest...

Thanks to the work we have done in adding more packages for every desktop we can now be more flexible. You can divide the packages into two categories: desktop essential elements (arcolinux-bspwm, ...) non-desktop essential elements (arcolinux-config-bspwm, ...) We...

On the website of LXQt and the Arch wiki we can inform ourselves about this desktop. A lightweight desktop is how the developers describe the desktop and we have to admit that is the case. Lightweight and responsive desktop with all the necessary configuration tools...

THE ISOS have been released to AAG what is aagAUDIT the isos ofarcolinux arcolinuxd ArcolinuxbaVAILABLE ON SEEDHOST IN aag FOLDERhttps://ant.seedhost.eu/arcolinux/AAGREPORT ANY ISSUES ON DISCORDbefore the official release dateyour effort is appreciatedbEST TO install...

Calamares is our installer and it is a super tool to install any linux distributions with a graphical interface. Calamares is so essential to our distribution that we started making a Calamares series giving you golden tips examples of auto installation examples of...

Our isos are always build with the latest Linux kernel released by Arch Linux. The bulk of our users have no issues whatsoever with this kernel BUT we got reports back that some of the users booted into a black screen. Often they mentioned the presence of an nvidia...

ArcoLinux exists almost two years and we have today 1000 videos on Youtube just about ArcoLinux. It is time to look back and make a video about ArcoLinux. Topics : Linux Arch Linux Goals Choices Calamares Learn, have fun and enjoy.   1. Linux think out of the box...

Thanks to the response of  Ivar Roode aka zver43 on Discord on one of my videos he jumped to the challenge to make a golden medallion for ArcoLinux. Not only did he do a marvelous job with it, he created five variations. gold silver bronze ArcoLinux blue white We can...

Since January we are working and using seedhost as our main repository and we had only once an issue with a short downtime of the servers. We are actually quite pleased with the service. Since our bandwidth in our current service plan (SB6) is almost used up every...

What is aaGAAG stands for ArcoLinux Auditing groupWhen is AAGone week on a MONTHLY basisWhere is AAGhttps://ant.seedhost.eu/arcolinux/aag/Who is AAG memberyou Why AAG AAG is the response on your demand. ArcoLinux users have asked to get access to the beta versions of...

Since January we have a data server where we can host our isos and seed from there. See article here.We have started with ArcoLinux iso and ArcoLinuxD iso and will evaluate how that goes.On the download page you will see there is a third option to download the iso...

January 2019 will be remembered as an important month. We have decided to buy a shared data server with high speed and enough disk space. Seedhost is the company, where we are hosting our repositories and isos. Seedhost in turn is using the datacenters...

ArcoLinuxIso.com has been created for you. Creating ArcoLinux, ArcoLinuxD and ArcoLinuxB isos improve our grasp of building an iso. We will share that knowledge at some point in time. We have already created several tutorials that should be hosted on ArcoLinuxIso.com....

ArcoLinuxB.com has been created for you. Building a personalized ArcoLinux is so easy and non-technical in ArcoLinux. Edit which packages you want. Delete or add software. Then run a script and wait for the result. Test the iso in a virtualbox and finally on ssd.

In total 1 GB of wallpapersSubmicron or Fernando Cruz, creator and donator of many beautiful wallpapers of ArcoLinux, has generously given us permission to share ALL his wallpapers with you. You can find all his work on https://www.deviantart.com/submicron and follow...

ArcoLinuxB has been created for you. Building a personalized ArcoLinux is so easy and non-technical in ArcoLinux. Edit which packages you want. Delete or add software. Then run a script and wait. 15 minutes later you have a personalized ArcoLinuxB iso....

First anniversary of ArcoLinux on September 15th 2018 We have decided to go through with the following changes after working a year on ArcoLinux. Launch date has been changed to the 15th of every month. This is better tuned to the work planning of the team and the...

Articles and video’s will follow on a later date. Enjoy in the meantime this awesome desktop environment. This desktop is quite complete. There are setttings for every thinkable situation or hardware. You can theme it any way you want. Check it out on...

Articles and video’s will follow on a later date. Enjoy in the meantime this awesome desktop environment. Fast, stable, sound effects, window effects, many menu possibilities, new applications to explore,… the list goes on. Check it out on...

Ready to learn something new. We have a tiling window manager for you called BSPWM. It is smooth. It is fast. Uses hardly any resources. Check it out on https://arcolinuxd.com/

Phase 5 is finished - Install Arch Linux the arch way ArcoLinux's learning path includes an Arch Linux installation following the wiki. This is our phase 5. There is a guide for a BIOS installation for older computers There is a guide for an UEFI...

Topics of the live stream are  1. ArcoLinux and ArchMerge 2. Rolling Release means... 3. Websites, isos and learning phases 4. BYOI 5. Arch Linux explained - Arch Wiki installation 6. Deepin 7. Bspwm 8. Discord to chat to users and ArcoLinux team 9. 1st of May new iso...

EVOLVES INTO Rebranding ArchMerge has been rebranded into ArcoLinux for several reasons. The most important being that the name no longer covers what we are doing. ArchMerge is a merger of Xfce, Openbox and i3. That was the initial idea behind the word "Merge".  Since...

We are proud to announce that we achieved our first goal : Phase 2 In phase 2 we give you the ArcoLinuxD iso (a minimal ArcoLinux installation) and then you decide what desktop you install afterwards. We provide you with installation scripts. They function as a...

We Develop,we Document,we are Different, we are Diverseand you Decide the Desktop.  In phase 1 we use the iso of ArchMerge and all applications, themes, icons are all installed and tweaked out of the box. Your distro is set to go just like that. In phase 2 we use...

We Develop, we Document,  we are Different, we are Diverse and you Decide the Desktop. In phase 1 we use the iso of ArchMerge and all applications, themes, icons are all installed and tweaked out of the box. Your distro is set to go just like that. In phase 2 we use...

We Develop, we Document, we are Different, we are Diverse and you Decide the Desktop.   In phase 1 we use the iso of ArchMerge and all applications, themes, icons are all installed and tweaked out of the box. Your distro is set to go just like that. In phase 2 we...

We started out with the forum based on fluxbb on https://arcolinux.com/bbs. After using it for a few months we agreed that we should move to a better suited platform to better accommodate our ArchMergers. We were losing a lot of time with...

After the launch we listened to many youtube reviews and  read many articles about ArchMerge 6.0. Every piece of information was important and starting from your feed-back and our own work experience we decided to implement things or not. Libreoffice is one of the...

Nick has been posting many great screenshots of ArchMergeD. We were very surprised how fast he was producing those great desktop environments you all love and liked so much. As it is our intention to give you a github for every desktop environment out there FULLY...

Thanks to the effort and the talent of Cristian Pozzessere, his artworks can be found on deviantart, we can now share with you another beautiful logo to be use on your systems in conkys or to make your own wallpaper creation etc. Grey background not...

In our vision to share our knowledge with you we foresee to deliver you an ArchMerge version called ArchMergeD ArchMergeD will still have a graphical installation. ArchMerge will be stripped down to the bare essence. It is up to you then to install a desktop of your...

When I analyzed the webspace and bandwidth of erikdubois.be, I released it would be less then ideal to host all ArchMerge articles on that website. We expect to have between 300-500 articles in a few years time. Erikdubois.be has now 60 articles on...

We have opted to go with fluxbb (rather than phpbb) as a forum platform just like Arch Linux and with a similar look. We ask therefore all users to register at https://arcolinuxforum.com

Thanks for the many comments in this very first article. There was no more information than this picture. Via different social media and mail I was asked to make a successor of ArchLabs R2-D2. It made me decide to continue the work I started at ArchLabs. Very much...