ArchBang LIVE CD v1.04
md5sum: c80adb60e0254cc097309f75481cf5b7
ArchBang LIVE CD v1.04 64 bit
md5sum: 09a2eaf8b09f0cbda30395beda547587
ArchBang 1.04 is out in the wild both 32bit & 64bit versions!
Please check your ISO’s md5sum
Changes:
-We went “lite mode” by stripping off packages so the iso just 445MB [x86] and 464MB [x64].
-Floppy disabled in modules
-USB delay changed from 5 to 8
-Chromium instead of Firefox
-New look
-Added Centerim & irssi & catfish
-leafpad instead of gedit
ENJOYYYYYYYYY and give us your feedback!
For the next releases:
-An installer
-Your comments will help us see what else could be improved
And there’s now a wiki entry.
February 4, 2010
pdg86
18 responses to “[release] ArchBang 1.04”
mandog
February 4th, 2010 at 20:10
I’m glad you are progressing with this project, The installer should not be to much of a problem as the larch one works well as does the modified Arch installer i’ll try the live CD over the next day or so.
pdg86
February 4th, 2010 at 20:36
Thanks. We have a few ideas about the installer and need to hack/debug the scripts.
Any help would be appreciated. Oh, we didn’t check out larch yet. Maybe that could help.
Guilherme de Sousa
February 4th, 2010 at 21:46
great job man! it would be great to have a fast way to install arch with openbox, since thats my desktop:D!
keep the good work!
regards
lilsirecho
February 4th, 2010 at 22:05
Faunos has an installer as well as larch…probably related.
Mathias
February 5th, 2010 at 18:42
Maybe you should use the new Archlinux logo? The one in the screenshot is old.
gentoo
February 5th, 2010 at 23:45
kudos! great distro you’ve created there. one ‘lil proposition: replace irssi with weechat. it’s much more sophisticated while being as lite as irssi
Guilherme de Sousa
February 6th, 2010 at 21:49
i use weechat.. its very nice and its default config its very easy to use! i cant say the same about irssi
pdg86
February 6th, 2010 at 22:26
ok , irssi will be replaced, thank you for your feedbacks and suggestions!
This is our official discussion thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89627
spc
February 7th, 2010 at 21:34
Ok i can say it’s stable – i didn’t have any problems with Live session.
:
– to much black will kill you 
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BUT
It is also lacks features ( I understand it’s half baked right??)and its not properly balanced IMHO. Why there ar Nvidia drivers but no word processor included ? For instance, working out of the box Abiword or even OO.org (you Arch people have Lightweight version of it??) would be nice.
Too many black gtk themes – on one default i couldn’t distigush arrow button from backrgound
I missed something or there is no digital camera support ??
Kickout thunar,pcmanfm is more flexible (desktop icons..)
Yeah… Don’t be shy to fill cd to the brim with 700 mb of data
and take a look at zenwalk: out of the box mature desktop, balanced and weightless (and that’s big fat xfce 4.6.1)
Cheers and well done:D
pdg86
February 7th, 2010 at 22:13
Thanks for the suggestions.
1. Thunar and thunar-volman have been really working well for me and will and we both haven’t used pcmanfm much, even in lxde we used thunar. But due to many suggestions we’ll consider pcmanfm.
2. We are keeping a check on size. Abiword maybe.
3. As for themes it’s users preference, but will provide a lighter theme.
4. No digicam [for now]. [As I said size!]
5. We are not using lzma , we won’t work on it untile we get our installer ready!
6. We are currently planning on 1.05 fixing all the issues with 1.04 and considering all the suggestions so far!
A quick sneek-peak at our working desktop 1.05:
http://omploader.org/vM2g3ZA
Stan
February 8th, 2010 at 00:09
Just a note: keep in mind that PacManFM is undergoing a complete rewrite at the moment (http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/ ; Goals of Next Generation PCManFM) — might be comparable to Thunar in the long run
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I am sorta disappointed that Firefox was taken out, but maybe it really is time to learn how to use other browsers… And I also understand that you guys are gunning for speed and size- and seeing how things are right now, you both are doing a great job.
Keep up the good work!
Guilherme de Sousa
February 8th, 2010 at 03:30
can I make sugestion for a light cool theme?
Nova-Arch openbox theme, and for gtk Murrine Arch (I know theres a Nova-Arch gtk theme but I found some bugs in it:\ so Murrine Arch is the most similar I found).
for icons use ALLBLACK, that makes great contrast with the white:D!
OpenboxTheme:
http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Nova-Arch?content=75229
GTK:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Murrine+Arch?content=96308
Icons:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ALLBLACK?content=70630
it would look great:D!
regards
pdg86
February 8th, 2010 at 06:52
@Stan
Firefox will be back, chromium has issues with xcompmgr and doesn’t work ootb with it.
@Guilherme de Sousa
Nice theme!
Guilherme de Sousa
February 8th, 2010 at 18:05
stan the problems with chromium are kind of solved, I posted the solution in a thread here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90424
smradlev
February 17th, 2010 at 22:48
Can I make two suggestions:
1. Use bauerbill instead of packer. Bauerbill now supports AUR, ABS, CPAN and Hackage; and properly handles the provides field of the PKGBUILDs.
2. Use epiphany, instead of firefox. Epiphany uses ~6MB less space installed on the archbang v1.04 (after removing chromium); epiphany is lighter on system resources (actually it is lighter than even midori or arora — I used the wikipedia homepage as a benchmark); and unlike firefox, epiphany passes the acid3 test with 100/100. If you decide to switch to epiphany, you have to create the folder /home/live/.gnome2, or otherwise epiphany won’t start.
Keep up the great work!
Mike
February 21st, 2010 at 02:12
It would be better if you set a password for root by default. If blank, then you cannot “su root” in LXTerminal with blank passwords. This is a bit annoying. Set “root” as password by default as usually it’s the first thing to try and more obvious.
Mike
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:06
Please, add Midnight Commander, a must have.
Add a shortcut to LXTerminal in the launch menu.
Also, set a password for root. If blank, when you open LXTerminal and you try to “su root” it will not work. It’s doesn’t let you if password is blank. “sudo passwd root” does not work either. You have to go to a console outside X and log in as root there. Had to search on the net to find out ;P , that could be avoided. I suggest root/root as it’s the more obvious.
pdg86
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:22
@ Mike
You can add a root password yourself. Just go to the Arch Forum thread and see “willxtreme’s” first post!
You don’t need to use “su” for root privilege just use sudo with live account. It should be all fixed in 1.05.
I’m not sure about MC, will have to discuss with Will. May not be there in 1.05.
64bit ISO of 1.05 is built. Waiting for Will to respond.
Regards
sHy [aka PDG]