Table of Contents for
Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to

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Cover image for bash Cookbook, 2nd Edition Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to by Ike Devolder Published by Packt Publishing, 2012
  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
  4. Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
  5. Credits
  6. About the Author
  7. About the Reviewers
  8. www.PacktPub.com
  9. Preface
  10. The Arch Way
  11. Bleeding edge
  12. What this book covers
  13. What you need for this book
  14. Who this book is for
  15. Conventions
  16. Reader feedback
  17. Customer support
  18. 1. Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
  19. Installing Arch Linux using the Archboot ISO (Should know)
  20. Configuring your system (Should know)
  21. Installing and removing packages (Must know)
  22. Booting and managing services with systemd (Should know)
  23. Booting and managing services using initscripts (Should know)
  24. Configuring GUI using Xorg (Should know)

Preface

Arch Linux is an independently developed, general purpose GNU/Linux distribution, optimized for i686/x86-64 systems. The distribution is versatile enough to suit you in any role/need. It has been designed focusing on simplicity, code elegance, and "do-it-yourself" principles. The basic installation of Arch Linux is a very minimal base system. From the base system, everything can and will be configured by the user to suit their ideal environment, suited for their own unique purposes. The supported method of configuration is from the shell editing simple text files. Being a rolling-release distribution, there are no fixed releases. From time to time there are new install images provided by the Release Engineering Team, so that the installation media suits the new features introduced over time. Because of this rolling-release model, Arch Linux provides you with bleeding-edge software, typically the latest stable versions available. Pacman is the package manager of Arch Linux, which is designed to be an easy to use binary package manager.

History

Arch Linux was founded in 2002 by Judd Vinet who was inspired by the elegance and simplicity of some other Linux distributions such as Slackware, Polish Linux Distribution, and CRUX. But this simplicity came without a package manager, which was a big disappointment. Basically, to make his own life easier, Judd Vinet started Arch Linux with pacman as the package manager that can automatically handle the installation, upgrade, or removal of packages. Over the years Arch Linux kept on gaining more users, more developers, and has now been in the top 10 used distributions on DistroWatch for a pretty long time. Arch Linux is still being developed by volunteers and is not backed by some big company; the goal is to stay free in every sense of the word. In 2007 Judd Vinet passed the Project Lead to Aaron Griffin, who remains the Lead Arch Linux Developer to this day.