Release Notes

Rome wasn't built in a day......


Neither was ArchLabs Linux.  

Brett, Erik and I are super excited to present ArchLabs Linux +4.  We released test release back on the 7th of April to show off what we had acheived since +3 since then we have been working hard on bringing the next release to the Linux community.

We have kept the default look that we all love from BunsenLabs but have added a fair few new themes and icon themes as well as our own repository.  The polishing and fine tuning has been a priority and will continue to be.

A bit of a downer though, we are still having a long boot time for the live session and for the first boot after install.  Also opening anything as root for the first time has a bit of an extended wait but any following instances are instant.  Once you have opened a root instance and had a reboot everything is like greased lightning.

Calamares Installer also starts straight away in the live session, if you want to play around in the live session just close the Calamares window.  When you are ready to install, just click the ArchLabs logo in the top left.  

If you would prefer to use the Architect Installer, open a terminal use the following:

    sudo /abif-master/abif

If you are interested in the changes you can view the changelog here:

    https://github.com/ARCHLabs/Archlabs-Iso/releases


Once installed on a harddisk or an SSD and you wish to remove the Virtual Kernel Modules, open your terminal and execute the following:

    sudo pacman -Rns virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-modules-arch
    sudo rm /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf

If you use the ABIF installer, the installer icon will need to be removed from tint2, which you can do in tint2conf or by editing the tint2 with tint2zen.


If for any reason you have any issues, please post in the forum. One post per issue/bug please.

    http://archlabs.prophpbb.com/index2.php?sid=9e2a46bc274dc00600a7de9fd7de02a9 (this will need to be formatted nicer in the final post)

We are working to make +5 the most perfect release we can, some of the things on the To-Do list are:

- Decreasing initial boot times for live session
- Decreasing wait times for first use of sudo/root
- More custom wallpapers
- Additional custom Conky configs
- We hope to implement ArchLabs as a rolling release distribution.
- Trim down ISO size
We will be doing a build from complete scratch to try and eliminate these issues.

We had a bit of a team change with the depature of Rajat.  We are grateful for his input and wish him luck.  

Jody has asked to be removed as an "official" team member, but since he was so vital to the beginning of ArchLabs I have left him at the webpage as a tribute.  

So at the moment it is the three Musketeers, Brett, Erik and myself (Matt).

The webpage has had a new section added, Gallery.  Here we will update with our favourite customised ArchLabs screenshots to show off what can be acheived with Openbox.  Check that out here:

    https://archlabsblog.wordpress.com/gallery/

Any issues, contact either Brett, Erik or Myself rather than Jody.
ArchLabs is a work in progress. Help us make it better by getting in touch with us.

Don't expect to see +5 anytime soon as we are running with the "when it is ready" ethos.  

As usual you can download ArchLabs +4 from our Sourceforge page:

   sourceforge link

Thanks for checking our AL+4 and we hope you love it as much as we do.

Cheers

Matt

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