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Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration (lists.archlinux.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We are excited to announce that Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

This opportunity allows us to address some of the biggest outstanding challenges we have been facing for a while. The collaboration will speed-up the progress that would otherwise take much longer for us to achieve, and will ultimately unblock us from finally pursuing some of our planned endeavors. We are incredibly grateful for Valve to make this possible and for their explicit commitment to help and support Arch Linux.

These projects will follow our usual development and consensus-building workflows. [RFCs] will be created for any wide-ranging changes. Discussions on this mailing list as well as issue, milestone and epic planning in our GitLab will provide transparency and insight into the work. We believe this collaboration will greatly benefit Arch Linux, and are looking forward to share further development on this mailing list as work progresses.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Which ones? I'm not aware of any besides specialised distros like SteamOS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Try #EndeavourOS!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Which is just Arch with GUI setup and DE pre-shipped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

they added some nice tools though. e.g. their pacdiff & meld tool eos-pacdiff is pretty nice. then there is a kernel manager and a pretty clever update-script / wrapper around pacman and yay (eos-update). saying it is just Arch + GUI is selling it a bit short imho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It uses the Arch repos directly though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://itsfoss.com/arch-based-linux-distros/

Manjaro for example. I also thought Garuda would be focused on stability but according to this article potentially no. So maybe just Manjaro, I do remember reading about something else like it though...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Manjaro has a stability track record miles worse than Arch, to the point where someone made a GitHub wiki called “Manjarno”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Manjaro does "stability" by delaying everything by two weeks. That doesn't really help at all and might hurt you for security updates, because those will wait the same two weeks.