Artix Linux is a rolling-release distribution, based on Arch Linux.

It uses real init systems, because PID1 must be simple, secure and stable.

Recent news


Manual intervention required for OpenRC 0.62.2



OpenRC 0.62.2 requires services local, localmount and netmount to be added to runlevel default.
This can be done with commands:
rc-update add local default
rc-update add localmount default
rc-update add netmount default
As usual, please report anything out of the ordinary to the related forum announcement thread.


Fresh installation ISO images for 2025



The first official installation media of 2025 are waiting their users. As usual, please report anything out of the ordinary to the related forum announcement thread.


Our building infrastructure has been upgraded



The Brecht-Schule Hamburg has kindly upgraded our infrastructure to roughly 5 times faster virtual machines.

Merry Christmas, ho ho ho!


New official 2024 installation media



The latest weekly ISOs have been promoted to official installation media.

Notable changes: LXQt and LXDE were dropped from the community editions; XFCE was made default DE in community-gtk.

Please report anything out of the ordinary to the related forum announcement thread.


Packages archive #2



A backup package archive (located in the US) has just gone online, to address connectivity issues reported by some of our users.