Manjaro

Manjaro is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on an operating system called Arch Linux. It focus on user-friendliness, accessibility, and improved software testing and stability, compared to its upstream sources. It uses a rolling release update model with a package manager called Pacman. Manjaro is developed mainly in Austria, France and Germany. 

Reviewers usually says Manjaro is an easy to set up and use Linux distribution and suitable for both starters and experienced users. It is suggested as an easy and friendly way to install, and maintain a new Arch based distribution. Some reviewers find many contributed software, available in a repository called AUR, which has a good credit, because it is up to date from upstream resources. Others highlight many choice of official and community editions with different desktop environments.

 History 
Manjaro was first released on 10 July 2011. By mid of 2013, it was in the beta level, though important features of the final system, had all been inserted. It includes a graphical user interface (GUI) installer, but later it become an Antergos installer fork. It also includes a package manager called Pacman, with many choices, such as: Pamac (GTK) for Xfce desktop and Octopi (Qt) for Openbox edition. Other features including: Manjaro Hardware Detection (MHWD) for detection of free & private video drivers, and Manjaro Settings Manager for system-wide settings, user management, and graphics driver installation and management.

In 2012, GNOME Shell support was showed with the release of version 0.8.3. However, works in Arch Linux made it possible to restart the Cinnamon/GNOME edition as a community edition. An official release showing the GNOME desktop environment was re-released in March 2017.

At the end of August 2015, during the development of Manjaro 0.9.0, the team decided to switch to year and month for Manjaro's version code, instead of numbers. This makes to the 0.8.x series and the new 0.9.x series. Example, 0.8.13 released in June 2015, is changed to 15.06. 

Manjaro 15.09, codenamed Bellatrix and formerly known as 0.9.0, was released on 27 September 2015 with the new Calamares installer and updated packages.

In September 2017, Manjaro announced that support for i686 architecture would be discontinued because "popularity of this architecture is reducing". However, in November 2017, a semi-official community project "manjaro32", based on archlinux32, continued i686 support.

In September 2019, the Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG company was created. Its FOSS website said the company was created, to effectively participate in business agreements, create partnerships, and give professional services'.

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