14 DAY TRIAL // Dieter Plaetinck announced yesterday (May 17th) the immediate availability of the Arch Linux 2010.05 operating system. Being powered by Linux kernel 2.6.33.4-1, Arch Linux 2010.05 features improvements to the AIF installer, and lots of other enhancements. "New installation media are available. There are less of them, and they are smaller. But they can do more..." - Dieter Plaetinck said in the official release announcement. Without further introduction, let's take a closer look at the main changes brought by the new Arch Linux 2010.05 operating system:
· Linux kernel 2.6.33.4-1; · Pacman 3.3.3-5; · Glibc 2.11.1-3; · The ISO images can now be written on CD or USB media; · XZ compression is now used for more than half of included packages; · Dual ISO images are now available (for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures); · The Live CD now uses the isolinux bootloader for the boot process, exclusively; · Memtest was updated; · PXE booting is now supported; · Added wpa_supplicant; · Virtio is now supported; · You can now choose the blockdevice representation (uuid/label/devicefile) in the installer; · The UI library was split into a separate libui-sh project; · AIF installer supports virtio blockdevices; · AIF installer allows users to specify extra custom arguments for mkfs and similar tools; · Fixed many other annoying bugs, especially in the AIF installer; · Updated the official installation guide.
About Arch Linux
Arch Linux is a general purpose Linux distribution that can be molded to do just about anything. The Arch Linux distribution is fast, flexible, lightweight and most of the parts under the hood are quite simple to understand and tweak, which can make it a good distro to "learn the ropes" on.
Grab the new Arch Linux 2010.05 ISO images right now from Softpedia.