In September I will be 60 years old and have been an Archlinux user for nearer 20 years, ten of those years running ArchBang. Have created this post more as a way to ask for help and to promote the idea of change. Personally not used Openbox for many years, much prefer i3/sway as my … The State of the ArchBang Project and Its Future
Have just built and uploaded a new iso image, noticed quite a few package updates in Arch this week. This week I have been running Sway window manager, as it is very like i3 I find it very easy to set up and have started to get my desktop as I would like. Not a … This week I am running Sway window manager…
I cannot make up mind mind so have decided to leave well alone, Firefox will remain default browser and it can drag in whatever it needs to work… ArchBang image is updated with latest packages and kernel uploaded about an hour ago. This week I have been messing around with Flameshot, a screenshot taker on … Firefox is staying and Python reappears….
Recently iso image has started to grow in size and was get close too 1.3Gbs so decided to look at what is being dragged in during iso build. First pavucontrol uses gtk4 so its another graphical toolkit for just one application [and not a large one at that!]. Second which I think will upset a … Two things to reduce iso image size that may upset some users.
Just finished uploading a new summer iso image. Currently ‘rc’ as I still want to make some minor changes to theme but it is a clean new look. Features new updated themes, rofi is back, new background and quite a few small changes to look and feel. Seems that Firefox and pavucontrol now pull in … Summer is here….
Have had some interesting feedback on i686 version of ArchBang. An odd issue with setting time and applications loaded post install not working. To that end I purchased an old Acer Aspire One from Ebay for 10 Euro/Dollars that seller stated it had 1.5Gbs of ram, turns out it only has 512Mbs ;-(. Anyway it … Running ArchBang on old hardware…..
Building a new iso image with updated packages and latest kernel. Will get it uploaded shortly. I am totally amazed at the number of downloads 32bit version has had. Either users are downloading image via latest version link on sourceforge or there is more interest in ti than I first thought. Thinking it might be … Upcoming Summer release…
Am uploading a new ArchBang i686 iso image to SourceForge. Have had some users asking about an updated iso image and for the most part turned them away as I have had very little interest or downloads. Anyway I got a little side tracked and decided to fire up Archlinux32 in a VM. The fun … Fancy a new 32bit version?
Have been asked a few times about updating i686 ArchBang version. Last time I did an iso it got little or no interest. Curiosity got the better of me and decided to see if I could install archlinux32 in a virtual machine. As I am used to using arch-install-scripts I proceeded to follow archlinux install … Am testing Archlinux32….
Have just built and uploaded new iso image includes 6.9 kernel and updated packages. On Tuesday I was hit by a car while cycling home from work, luckily I did not break anything or had too much damage to my bike. Am very sore and badly bruised and have a very sore back. Have never … Bit of an odd week…