Recent news

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We will be moving to upstream's new s6-frontend as the primary way to manage the s6 implementation on Artix.

Previously, in-house scripts and wrappers were used, but s6-frontend allows us to be more init agnostic and match upstream more closely. For users, the primary change is that command line interface for managing services changes slightly. Instead of enabling services by touching empty files to a directory, you will now use s6 set enable foo. For more details please check the s6 wiki page and upstream documentation.

Currently, the new s6 packages are in the gremlins repos and will eventually make their way to stable later this week. Please report any issues you may encounter at the forum announcement thread.

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After some reasonable time in development, we offer a repository for user-submitted init scripts, the AURIS.

Submitted scripts will automatically get packaged when approved by a moderator and moved into the [auris] repository. Please, read the instructions at the project's own page for details.

More information and feedback at the announcing forum topic.

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We are pleased to announce the first official release for 2026. Related forum thread.

Main release notes:
- The default X server now is XLibre; Xorg is still packaged and available for installation.
- The default audio system is no longer PulseAudio; we bundle PipeWire in the ISO images.
- Users who choose Plasma can readily use either Wayland or XLibre.
- Support for user services with OpenRC and dinit.

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The latest elogind-255.22-1 breaks user services in OpenRC and has been pulled off [system] until fixed. If you updated before it was pulled, downgrade to elogind-255.17-2 either from the package cache

# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/elogind-255.17-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-elogind-255.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

or from our package archive # pacman -U https://archive.artixlinux.org/packages/e/elogind/elogind-255.17-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst https://archive.artixlinux.org/packages/l/lib32-elogind/lib32-elogind-255.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

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Arch is phasing GTK2 out of its repositories. This entails the renaming and removing packages: the newer -gtk[34] which replace old GTK2 ones drop their suffix and the latter are removed.

Artix will keep GTK2 and dependent packages (for as long as they build without much patching) in [galaxy]. Notable ones are LXDE (package group lxde-gtk2) and hexchat. Until the rebuild operation and testing is completed, these packages shall reside in [galaxy-gremlins]. Please understand that they will not be actively supported and help in maintaining is appreciated.

Please follow the GTK2 forum thread for information and updates.