Recent news

---

Some of you have probably seen the blog post a few months ago about how GNOME is more strongly depending on systemd. The changes mentioned there have landed into the latest stable versions of the mentioned software (GNOME 49) and do affect us. In particular, the main culprit is the removal of the non-systemd fallback code in gnome-session. This makes it currently impossible to launch gnome-shell/mutter on a non-systemd system. A fairly straightforward patch of using elogind, like what was previously done, no longer works either.

Since we don't have the time or interest to write a new non-systemd codepath for gnome-session, this means that all support for gnome-based desktops has to be dropped. In particular, the affected packages would be gnome-session, gnome-shell, mutter, and gnome-settings-daemon. For now, the old versions are still in the repos but because there is so much intertwining between other gtk/gnome packages, there is no guarantee they actually work and will later be removed from our repos.

Standalone gnome applications will still continue to be packaged, but it is simply not feasible anymore to support gnome desktops without systemd.

Join the discussion on our forum and possibly change the fate of GNOME Desktop Environment in Artix Linux.

---

DrKonqi shipped with Plasma 6.4 requires systemd and does not work without it.
Users are adviced to remove "drkonqi" package.

pacman -R drkonqi

---

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.

---

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.

---

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

Merry Christmas, ho ho ho!