Am building and soon going to upload ArchBang with zen_installer Zen-installer will install Arch Linux plus a desktop or window manager with various packages and applications. Configure a user, keyboard layout, pacman servers plus much much more. A network connection (wired or wireless) is required…Network manager will automatically connect to a wired connection, wifi users … Beta version includes zen-insaller
I have a few requests in the past for a network based flexible installer. Well I came across revenge (now called zen-installer). After emailing developer I am starting to test it under ArchBang. To do this I had to add zenity which pulls in webkit2gtk, to reduce iso size I switched firefox to midori. The … Adding zen-installer to ArchBang
It seems Archlinux updates its kernel on a daily basis! Am trying to keep iso fresh but its not easy 😉 Not even started on Summer release yet, more of a theme update than anything else. Am getting some feedback on lack of support with ArchBang. At the moment I am running iso, website on … Kernel updates again
Added Testdisk package to iso, ideal if you want to try to recover lost files on a drive. Not much else really simply wanted to bring iso up to date. Download are once again at an all time high, thank you 😉 Feel free to buy me a coffee, link on main page. Right back … Quick update
Arch is bringing out a new kernel everyday. Decided to update Spring release, basically updated packages (Firefox returns). Soon start work on Summer release. Please let me know if there is a certain application you would like to see in ArchBang, then feel free to contact me. Have made some changes to guide (mostly my … Updated Spring Release
Well not that long after Spring release I started working on beta iso. Some minor changes, was not happy with pacman script so have added some commands to .bashrc (an alias and a function). setup-pacman-key does exactly that and works live as well as post install. Setup-mirror allows users to edit mirrorlist to enable local … Beta iso…
Was not happy with pacman-setup script so have added two functions too ~/.bashrc. Quite torn as I do not want to hide these from user but I figure only other option is a ~/Bin or ~/Scripts which just seems messy. Have updated Guide to reflect changes (must do one online at some point). So you … Change of plan…
Started working on ArchBang beta from day I released Spring edition. Think pacman-setup script has thrown a lot of users wanting pacman to work out of the box. Iso now boots very fast so it was always going to be a trade off. Once installed however you need to set up keys for your new … Working on Beta and I forgot something!
Am in the process of uploading ArchBang Spring release to sourceforge. Updated packages, change of theme and added in Nitrogen wallpaper manager. Major changes to note: pacman-init and dhcp service are not run at boot of live iso. This means that ArchBang boots much faster. Downside is user needs to run a script called pacman-setup … ArchBang Spring Release
Have had a few emails with useful feedback over past week. One of which mentioned issues with very long boot times live. It seems mostly down too pacman-init service. It is used in archiso to set up pacman keys to do this it needs entropy (haveged is used). For some reason it can take quite … User feedback and very long boot times