You want to be independent. You want to have your own local repo. You want to stay as close to Arch Linux as possible. You want to build up your own distro. ArcoLinux repo will NOT be used. Alci repo will NOT be used. Chaotics repo will NOT be used. Arch Linux repos...

In this video we talk about drivers and about daring to experiment so you know what drivers you need for pc 1 and laptop 2. Test it out and write it down. We talk about nvidia, nvidia-lts and nvidia-dkms. We decide to install Cinnamon and not use the ALCI-DWM desktop...

The package list contains all the packages we can use for our iso. These are pre-build packages from Arch Linux. If Arch Linux decides not to build the packages anymore it will result in an error during the build. error: target not found: termite-terminfo Then there...

We build our iso and go over all the changes. we create our local repo we build a package called nemesis-wallpapers to test our local repo we keep sddm on our future system - you will boot into a graphical environment we give you an example how a local repo should...

It is fun to make your Operating System just the way you like. In our example we will put several wallpapers on our github and create a package for it. The advantage of a package is that Pacman can control it. sudo pacman -S  or -R will work. If we copy/pasted the...

The core of ALCI is the packages list and ofcourse pacman.conf which will tell where the pacakages are. You can get the packages from: Arch Linux ArcoLinux Chaotic AUR ... many others But you can also create a local repo on your computer system. You build the packages...

We changed to Calamares 3.3 a few weeks back. Thanks to a user reporting an issue on github we investigated what happened to the current setup. It seems Calamares has changed its way of declaring variables from @@ROOT@@ to ${ROOT}. Once that was changed our...

In this video you can see all the things I have to do in order to get things working with the very last code of April 2023. Many things have changed. Not only the application but also the configuration. ArcoLinux and Carli have migrated already. On the Carli...

In this video we explain you the workflow of creating a new grub theme for your distro. create a grub theme and host it online (here Github) create a PKGBUILD put the application on your repo add the application to the packages list file build the iso test the iso

You see a message in Calamares and you did not change anything. Maybe Calamares did not change Maybe the configuration did not change but everything else did change. New kernels, new systemd and also the packages that are needed to make Calamares work. Here the two...

It is always the same workflow. Compare the releng folder coming in from the Archiso package (sometimes also the mkarchiso script). Decide what you like to include on your future iso with the use of Meld. Double-check. Triple-check. Build the iso. Test the iso.Let us...

Building a new Calamares is something YOU can do. You do not need us for it. You can build it and put it on the local repo on your pc. You can make your own Calamares configurations. See example below.You can make your own packages list and it will become YOUR...