Manjaro Linux

Manjaro [ manʃɑ ː ro] is based on Arch Linux Linux distribution, developed in Germany, France and Austria. It is primarily a free operating system for personal computers which is focused on ease of use. As its base, Arch Linux, it uses a rolling - release model.

Special

With its own installer and a graphical frontend for package management, it is aimed at both beginners and advanced users. [Note 1]

The developers have a variety of editions, which differ by the installed work environment and related programs. As standard finishes Xfce, Openbox, KDE, or the minimum Net Edition are provided (without pre-installed display managers ), but are available as projects Manjaro users also editions with Cinnamon / Gnome, Enlightenment, LXDE, MATE in partially older version information of the Installer CD available for download. Manjaro Linux uses its own package repositories that serve to provide stable snapshots of the Arch Linux repositories. This Manjaro is not quite as up to date as Arch Linux.

The installation program THUS offers both automatic and manual hard disk partitioning, and a hardware detection, eg for graphics cards and can require driver install automatically. An installed Manjaro Linux is kept up to date on Rolling Releases alone with the package manager without reinstalling or system upgrade [Note 2] Manjaro with Octopi ( Openbox ) and PRAMAC ( Xfce ) offers its own front-ends for the Arch Linux package manager, Pacman.; with the tool Yaourt packages from the Arch User Repository (AUR ) can be installed.

For the init system initialization of the operating system, the program is used systemd what a fast computer start-up possible.

Dissemination

In 2013, SourceForge counts on average per month over fifty thousand downloads of the release image. Manjaro was included on the cover discs of expenditure 167 and 172 of the English magazine Linux Format. On Distrowatch itself Manjaro is for a year among the ten most frequently called distribution pages.