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Getting Virtual in Boxes

Was messing around with Virt-manager this week then came across Gnome-Boxes. Thought it would only be an Ubuntu thing and more likely in AUR, but to my surprise it is in main Arch repos. As I had already set up virt-manager it was quite simply a case of installing gnome-boxes package and away you go. Getting Virtual in Boxes

Ubuntu Linux!

Yes you read it right I loaded Ubuntu linux on my laptop. Installed i3 window manager and set about setting up virt-manager. All was fine could run arch linux in a virtual machine and all seemed well. Anyway a day later I went back to Arch 😉 I have used Virtualbox mostly for testing iso Ubuntu Linux!

Getting Help?

I do not like asking for money, funding, crypto, gift cards or even a coffee. Offer Paypal as a simple way to support my work but many people do not like using it. Not going to use google ads again, very limited and they can pull payments at will. I need alternatives that people will Getting Help?

i686 rebuild of iso…

Seemed to be an issue with last 32bit iso image, it simply dropped to a reduced shell. It was an issue with mount command inside of util-linux package. Quick visit to archlinux32 forums and package was updated. Am building image now so will test boot before uploading. Next i686 release will include i3 in line i686 rebuild of iso…

Switching to a new terminal…

Decided to try out rxvt-unicode terminal emulator. It is not as user friendly as lxterminal but still comes with a host of features one that interested me was transparency. To ease you all into the change I have included it in next iso image and you can try it out by using Super + Return. Switching to a new terminal…

Six has arrived….

I am building an iso that will ship with 6.0 kernel. Have noticed that broadcom-wl package is now broadcom-wl-dkms so for this release I have removed broadcom package. Anyway uploading soon 😉 Enjoy

Quick iso update…

Have built and uploaded a fresh iso image today, mostly updated packages and some minor changes under the hood. Next week I will do a full release once happy everything is working ok. Had an email from a user wishing to install ArchBang32 from a hard drive iso image, now I like a challenge so Quick iso update…

Alternative to Super….

Well I have just uploaded Autumn Beta iso for testing 😉 I still need to test installer and just make sure I have got everything working at it should. Had a very interesting email from a user who does not have Super [Windows] key on their keyboard. Had never thought about it as in Openbox Alternative to Super….