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Came across a review on You Tube by Derek (Distro Tube). He has highlighted some issues with installers. Will not only try to clear up any confusion but also make changes that will help new…

I am really surprised today ArchBang has had over 3500 downloads this week. An all time record. Have to blame (or thank) Matt at ArchLabs for letting users know of release. Think some comments were…

Have just uploaded a release for November, usual thing updated packages and configs. Guide can now be viewed by using Super + g it includes some basic keybind shortcuts in i3. Firefox is back for…

Uploading a new iso, have gone ‘rc’. Made a few changes: Dmenu colours now fixed, is now called directly from i3 config file i3status bar config is now in ~/.config (make it a little easier…

Been working on i3 version for a few days now and am very close to going ‘rc’. Have one more thing to fix in installer (already done). Highlights: Cbatticon.. a systray icon that shows battery…

Seems that there is an issue with latest release. Step 8 of installer is failing with a readline error. Am now rebuilding last weeks iso (Openbox based) to see if that fixes the error. I…

Have fixed an error in abinstall (couple of typos I made). Made more changes to iso to remove openbox packages and related configs, installer etc. Have still much more work to do want to get…

ArchBang has been Openbox based for over ten years. Over the next few weeks I will be working towards switching to i3 tiling window manager. May well run i3-gaps as I do not want to…

Had to happen I upload an iso and the very next day kernel gets updated. In the process of getting Archiso up to date again. For next iso I will go ‘beta’ until I can…

Good news another week another iso, not really much has changed (package wise) over the week but I do like to keep things fresh 😉 Bad news my boss has tested positive and I have…