Arch Linux

Arch Linux is a text mode Linux distribution, albeit a desktop manager can be installed. The package manager is called pacman (not to be confused with the famous game).
Unlike Debian and derivatives, Arch Linux uses a "rolling release" system. This operating system is also one of the most customizable OSes released.
The OSM community has no interest with aside from Spyonclear's "Default OS with Arch Installer".
== History ==
Inspired by CRUX, another minimalist distribution, Judd Vinet started the Arch Linux project in March 2002. The name was chosen because Vinet liked the word's meaning of "the principal," as in "arch-enemy".
Originally only for 32-bit x86 CPUs, the first x86_64 installation ISO was released in April 2006.
Vinet led Arch Linux until 1 October 2007, when he stepped down due to lack of time, transferring control of the project to Aaron Griffin.
The migration to systemd as its init system started in August 2012, and it became the default on new installations in October 2012. It replaced the SysV-style init system, used since the distribution inception.
On 24 February 2020, Aaron Griffin announced that due to his limited involvement with the project, he would, after a voting period, transfer control of the project to Levente Polyak. This change also led to a new 2-year term period being added to the Project Leader position.
The end of i686 support was announced in January 2017, with the February 2017 ISO being the last one including i686 and making the architecture unsupported in November 2017. Since then, the community derivative Arch Linux 32 can be used for i686 hardware.
=== Repository security ===
Until Pacman version 4.0.0, Arch Linux's package manager lacked support for signed packages. Packages and metadata were not verified for authenticity by Pacman during the download-install process. Without package authentication checking, tampered-with or malicious repository mirrors could compromise the integrity of a system. Pacman 4 allowed verification of the package database and packages, but it was disabled by default. In November 2011, package signing became mandatory for new package builds, and as of 21 March 2012, every official package is signed.
In June 2012, package signing verification became official and is now enabled by default in the installation process.
== Installation ==
Unlike most Linux distributions, Arch does not have any (CLI or GUI) installer by default and requires the user to manually install it from the command line. The default interface is CLI after install,so a GUI must be installed manually. Therefore it's not exactly a user-friendly distribution.
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