releases

every Arctic Linux image, newest first, and what changed in each

Older releases were pulled from this list - they claimed a maturity the distro was not at. This is A1 TESTING: the distro is being put together faster than it can be verified, and the version label says so honestly instead of pretending otherwise.

A1 TESTINGlatest

x86_64 · 696 MiB · live image and installer

  • a real install could still behave like the live image: the first-login greeting could tell you to run arctic-install again, wifi-connect could report "no networks found" against real hardware in range, and kernel-module coldplug could take the full ~30s the live ISO does not have
  • all three were the same bug: arctic-base and alpm bootstrap through a separate packaging step that reads the source tree directly, not the normal recipe pipeline the live ISO build already used - so a fix could land on the live ISO and never reach a real arctic-install target if that separate step was not rerun since
  • rebuilt and republished from the current source tree - a fresh install now gets the same rc.boot, wifi-connect, and first-boot state the live ISO already has
  • wifi has some minor issues in this release but will be fixed in the next
Download A1 TESTING
sha256 b76f31e162a1cc05e4189976c5c5f134ad91b09b85d3eef48ab7a84266a34fe5

writing one

dd if=Arctic-linux-A1-TESTING.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

it is a hybrid image — it boots on BIOS and UEFI, from a disc or a USB stick, with nothing needed to write it.