Arch Linux
A minimal rolling distro you assemble yourself, with the latest packages and the famous Arch Wiki. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Arch Linux community
- Created by
- Judd Vinet
- First release
- 2002
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://archlinux.org
- Family
- Arch
- Based on
- Independent
- Package manager
- pacman, AUR helpers
- Package format
- pacman package
- Release model
- Rolling
- Release cadence
- Continuous
- Support lifetime
- Rolling, no releases
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- None (choose your own)
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop, Server
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 1 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64