The name was chosen because Vinet liked the word's meaning of "the principal," as in "arch-enemy". Inspired by CRUX, another minimalist distribution, Judd Vinet started the Arch Linux project in March 2002.
Īrch Linux has comprehensive documentation, consisting of a community-run wiki known as the ArchWiki. Īrch Linux uses a rolling release model, meaning there are no "major releases" of completely new versions of the system a regular system update is all that is needed to obtain the latest Arch software the installation images released every month by the Arch team are simply up-to-date snapshots of the main system components. Pacman, a package manager written specifically for Arch Linux, is used to install, remove and update software packages.
The default installation is a minimal base system, configured by the user to only add what is purposely required. GNU BusyBox can be installed if the user desiresĬommand-line interface ( Zsh as the default shell in Live CD or Live USB and Bash as the default shell after installation)įree software ( GNU GPL and other licenses) Īrch Linux ( / ɑːr tʃ/) is an independently developed, x86-64 general-purpose Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling-release model.
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