Arch Clones

melloe · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2025 11:19 pm Post subject: Arch Clones

Please fell free to add your favorite. This is a new area for me. Have not been following Arch till I did the core a few days ago.

Firefly Linux. Firefly Linux is a lightweight operating system designed with netbooks in mind. Based on Arch Linux, it comes with the small and fast LXDE desktop environment, many popular applications, and out-of-the-box support for wireless networks, sound cards and graphics cards. Firefly Linux includes some non-free software, including the Flash browser plugin and Skype telephony software, while thousands of additional packages are available for installation via the distribution's command-line or graphical package management tools.

http://fireflylinux.com/

http://fireflylinux.com/download/

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tlmiller · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2025 11:20 pm Post subject:

nifty. Didn't even know there WERE any based on Arch. Will have to check that out.

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JP · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2025 1:04 am Post subject:

First thing when I saw firefly, I thought, "that's based on FreeBSD" Embarassed

:oops; ....... that's dragonfly BSD Laughing

sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't ...........

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melloe · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2025 5:20 am Post subject:

melloe · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2025 4:39 pm Post subject: Kahel OS

Kahel OS is an Arch Linux-based distribution optimised for i686 and x86_64 processor architectures. It uses the GNOME desktop by default and offers out-of-the box support for several modern journaled file systems, such as btrfs, NILFS2 and ext4.

http://www.kahelos.org/

Download server
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kahelos/files/

Kahel OS added to Distrowatch List 14 Dec 2025
http://distrowatch.com/table.html?distribution=kahelos

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melloe · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2025 9:05 pm Post subject: Chakra Alpha 3

Development Release: Chakra Alpha 3
chakra Phil Miller has announced the availability of the third alpha build of the inaugural release of Chakra, a user-friendly distribution and live CD based on Arch Linux: "Today we are pleased to announce the release of Alpha 3 (Test) of the Chakra live CD. It contains a big amount of fixed bugs and polishing, which has been done all over the place. There is also a slew of new features like improved hardware detection, an auto-updater called 'chase', updated 'shaman', and a brand new USB image to allow installation without wasting a CD. Most noticeable changes and additions since Alpha 2: KDE 4.3.1 + extra applications and components; Linux kernel 2.6.30.6 including the fglrx patch; K3b 2.0 preview; Kaffeine 1.0 preview; printing support; updated theme; improved X.Org setup...." See the release announcement http://chakra-project.org/news/?/archives/17-Chakra-Alpha3-Test-released.html

release notes and download . http://chakra-project.org/download-iso.html#releaseinfo

orat www.distrowatch.com
chakra-minimal-i686-alpha3.iso (680MB, MD5).

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melloe · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2025 6:09 pm Post subject: ArchPwn

ArchPwn is an Arch-based live DVD with a collection of application for security analysis and penetration testing. WOW

http://www.archpwn.org//PackageList

http://www.archpwn.org//Main_Page
Download link down on page

Also posted elsewhere.

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melloe · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2025 6:14 pm Post subject: chaox,

arch linux, chaox, linux, livecd, liveusb on April 18, 2025 by jensp

Here we are again with a new release. A lot has been going on in linux land recently and testing all the new stuff took quite some time. If you want to help getting chaox developed faster we’d really appreciate some testers. Contact us via irc or the forum for details. So what new stuff do we have? We have the 2.6.29.1 kernel, patched for injection, ecryptfs, giskismet a tool for visualizing wireless networks, we switched to the beta version of nmap which comes with conficker detection, the packet-o-matic packet processor, polipo proxy configured to work with tor (tor button in firefox should work out-of-the-box now), sqlninja injection and takeover tool for mssql, sqlsus a similar tool for mysql and the w3af web application pentesting tool.
On the infrastructure side, the kind folks over at aircrack-ng made a subforum for us, please use it instead of the comment section if your asking for support, wordpress comments have become hard to maintain. If you have any problems/suggestions/whatever we’d like to hear from you! Read more for the complete changelog. http://blag.chaox.net/

* chaox-2009-04-17-18-05.iso (shasum) New one out
https://chaox.net/~jens/livecd/
Bad certificate for above last time I checked for download site, but the link for newest version 2025.7 is downpage on / at http://blag.chaox.net/

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melloe · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2025 1:01 pm Post subject: Development Release: Chakra Fuzzy

Development Release: Chakra Fuzzy
chakra Phil Miller has released a new development build of Chakra, an Arch-based desktop-oriented Linux distribution and live CD/DVD with KDE 4 and a graphical system installer: "Today we are pleased to announce the release of a development release named Fuzzy of our very own Chakra live media. It comes in two flavours, DVD and minimal, which contain a big amount of fixed bugs and polishing done all over the place. There is also a slew of new features like an improved hardware detection, an auto-updater called 'chase', updated Shaman and brand new hybrid images. Most noticeable changes and additions since Alpha 3: Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 + fglrx patch, KDE 4.3.2, updated Tribe, American locales fixed...." Here is the full release announcement. http://chakra-project.org/news/?/archives/25-Developer-Release-Fuzzy.html
Download links and torrents downpage

Or at www,distrowatch.com
chakra-minimal-i686.iso (668MB, MD5), chakra-dvd-i686.iso (1,385MB, MD5), chakra-minimal-x86_64.iso (684MB, MD5), chakra-dvd-x86_64.iso (1,413MB, MD5).

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melloe · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2025 9:46 pm Post subject: Chakra Alpha 4

Development Release: Chakra Alpha 4
chakra Phil Miller has announced the availability of the fourth alpha release of Chakra, a desktop distribution and live CD with KDE 4 based on Arch Linux: "Today we are pleased to announce the release of alpha 4, named 'NewAge', of our very own Chakra live media. A lot has changed since alpha 3. We have a new KDE 4 theme; Tribe can install custom mount points, and we did a ton of fixes. KDEmod got updated to version 4.3.3. Chakra hardware detection got stripped down to fit X.Org Server 1.7.1.901 package, so only NVIDIA drivers are the supported proprietary drivers for now. Most noticeable changes and additions since alpha 3: Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 with fglrx patch; Chakra tools updated (aqpm, shaman, chase); ATI Catalyst support temporarily dropped...." Here is the complete release announcement. http://chakra-project.org/news/?/archives/35-Chakra-Alpha4-Newage-released.html
http://chakra-project.org/download.html

Download ALPHA only http://chakra-project.org/download-iso.html#download

Or at www.distrowatch.com Cd only. DVD at torrent above
chakra-minimal-i686-091116-alpha4.iso (674MB, MD5), chakra-minimal-x86_64-091116-alpha4.iso (687MB, MD5).

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melloe · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2025 9:50 pm Post subject:

Chakra has moved up to 44 on Distrowatch, and I can see why. It seems to be a good'ern that even fumblefingers like me can seem to work with.

Installed the A4, and am very pleased with it so far. Originally, it did not "find" win7 or Mint, otherwise quite good.
http://newbieslinux.com/forum/?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=652.9575
http://newbieslinux.com/forum/?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=652.9627

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melloe · Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2025 12:35 pm Post subject: dwmarch.

dwmarch. dwmarch is a small (387 MB ) Arch Linux-based live CD using the minimalist dwm window manager. Livecd based on Archlinux, generated with larch.
contact: totoloco at gmail

Some included packages:
kernel 2.6.30 screen zsh vim alsa mpd mpc ncmpcpp X dwm chromium leafpad feh
mplayer irssi bitlbee
Download downpage

http://www.sarckz.com.ar/totoloco/

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melloe · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2025 7:26 am Post subject:

KahelOS Has the first ( Desktop ) installer version 26 Dec 2025

http://www.kahelos.org/newsdetails.html?newsid=39

Sharing and giving, that's the Spirit of Christmas.

And so on this very day of “Gift-Giving”, three months after our first installer release 09-09-2009, we give you the new KahelOS Linux (Desktop Edition) Installer Version: 12-25-2009 . Download KahelOS Linux Installer at http://www.kahelos.org/downloads.html

KahelOS Linux now has Kernel 2.6.32, Xorg 7.5 and Gnome 2.28.2 by default.

One may ask, what is new, is it worth-giving and worthy of sharing your experiences and thoughts about this new KahelOS Linux (Desktop Edition) Installer?

We are glad to impart the new KahelOS Linux Installer developed to make it much more simple, easier and refreshing to use.

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JP · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2025 9:03 am Post subject: Re: Kahel OS

melloe · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2025 4:54 pm Post subject:

I was not a big fan of Gnome in he past and pretty well stuck to KDE, but some of the recent implementations of Gnome 2.28.X and xfce, as well as some of the lighter WM have been interesting.

K3b and ktorrent were my mainstays <G>< But they, and some of the other "K" aps I like can be implemented anywhere any more.

For now, on the Arch side, I will stick to what started as Chakra. It is a humdinger. I am not one to spend hours to days to get up an OS to be close to what I need any more**, but am not always pleased with the results in the long run of some of the ready made full distros. Charka was about right with few personalizations.

**Too many years building windows boxes, and installing windows and all the "stuff" to allow some non tech person to be halfway safe on the net if they can avoid opening everything they see.....and cleaning up after them if they can't.

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