AryaLinux 2017 Released and Avaialable For Download
Chandrakant Singh has announced the launch of AryaLinux 2017. The AryaLinux distribution is source-based and uses ports style of package management.
AryaLinux 2017 brings about lots of changes in the build scripts and alps, package updates and latest kernel and desktop environments. Also a new set of build scripts that you can use to create your own system from scratch in a single command, resume partial builds and create your distribution in a very easy manner. This is a 64-bit only release. Going forward Arya would be only available for 64 bit systems.
AryaLinux 2017 - Release Notes
AryaLinux 2017 comes with package updates, the latest Linux kernel and updated build scripts to build system from scratch. Here are the features of this release- There is no 32 bit ISO available for download. Going forward Arya would only be released in 64 bit.
- Kernel updated to version 4.9
- Mate Desktop Environment upgraded from 1.15 to 1.17
- Build scripts support building the entire KDE and GNOME desktop environments from source code
- Libreoffice updated to version 5.2.3
- Parole Media Player and Exaile are the default media and audio players for the XFCE and Mate Spins
- Simple Screen Recorder is back with QT5
- A separate builder disk is released with build scripts to build the entire distribution from source code.
- The builder script simplifies the process of build further. Only one script needs to be run and the whole system would be built without any intervention.
- Advanced build options like configuring the kernel can be specified while building.
- Build scripts can create ISO files and make stage-wise backups if specified.
- Package updates can be done through alps.
- Alps features a new command to list all available packages and the list of installed packages.
- Alps can be used to build packages either from source URL or using the source tarball. This is however not a very foolproof way of installing from source but generally works.
- alps updatescripts now picks up the latest build scripts from github so when you install, you would be installing the latest packages.
Read the full release notes here
Note : With this release, the 32-bit installation media for AryaLinux has been dropped in favour of 64-bit images
aryalinux-xfce-2017-x86_64.iso (1,697MB)
aryalinux-mate-2017-x86_64.iso (1,791MB).
