Recent news

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After a 2-month period of testing and bug hunting, we are pleased to offer new official installation media.
In addition to base ISOs, this time we provide more desktop-specific images to choose from, for faster ready-for-use installations. Enjoy!

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If you are using OpenSSH it is necessary to restart the sshd daemon after the update to 8.2p1-1.
This was reported at the Arch Linux bug tracker: FS#65517 - [openssh] upgrade to 8.2p1-1 breaks logins

How-to:

OpenRC

rc-service sshd restart

Runit

sv restart sshd

s6

s6-rc -d change sshd
s6-rc -u change sshd

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When updating either one of these, you will see a message like this below.

Warning: this update will restart your service.
This may kill your graphical session. Save your work before proceeding.
Press 'ctrl+\' to quit the update. Press 'ctrl+c' to continue.
If you quit, you need to manually remove the /var/lib/pacman/db.lck file.

Before proceeding, be absolutely sure you are okay with temporarily killing your graphical session. Press 'ctrl+c' to continue and then manually execute the s6-rc-db-update-hook script..

# sh /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/s6-rc-db-update-hook

You will have to do this for both dbus-s6 and elogind-s6. After those are done, you can proceed with your regular update.

# pacman -Syu

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For s6 users, updating to s6-linux-init-1.0.3.1-5 will hit some file conflicts and require manual intervention. This will first be required for [gremlins] and then [system] later. If you want to save any changes made to s6-linux-init scripts first,

# cp -r /etc/s6/current/scripts /tmp

Then remove the current directory and reinstall s6-linux-init

# rm -rf /etc/s6/current

# pacman -Syu s6-linux-init

If you backed up your s6-linux-init scripts, you can move them back.

# cp -r /tmp/scripts /etc/s6/current

Now, it is safe to boot and shutdown the system again.

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New Artix ISO images, marked testing have been uploaded to our main download server.
The base ISOs only offer a bare minimum system, installable from the console, and are meant for people who want to setup their systems from the ground up.
The minimal ISOs come with a basic DE (LXDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE and KDE/Plasma), with a few basic applications and slightly preconfigured for uniform GTK/Qt look. The graphics installer of choice is Calamares and provides a basic working desktop.
All ISOs come in 3 versions with our officially supported init systems. Read the forum announcement and post your feedback there or in our Telegram group.