Manjaro 0.8.1 XFCE edition released
Exactly one month after we released our first beta release of Manjaro Linux, here is our first point-release in our 0.8-series. In the past four weeks Philip, Guillaume and I worked hard to get this update shaped up good as it is now.
Most people criticized that Manjaro wasted to much RAM. We replaced LightDM with LXDM, special patched to have a better theme support. Of course we needed a nice Manjaro theme for LXDM. The only problem is – there are no LXDM themes available…
So I sat down last night with a cup of coffee and started coding. To have a nice login interface I wanted to add a transparent black background to the login area. This required some patching in the LXDM greeter. I am really happy with the result and I hope you like the new LXDM Manjaro theme 
.
MHWD, our hardware detection tools, got updated and is using now BUS IDs for better control of your hardware. Phil fixed his CLI-installer and squashed some bugs which got reported in our forum or bugtracker. Guillaume updated plymouth and other core packages to have a smoother work-feeling. Manjaro feels snappier now. Last but not least we enabled our testing-repos offering KDE 4.9-series and other cool packages you can play with.
What’s about the Gnome/Cinnamon, KDE and Net version? The XFCE version is our main LiveCD and the others will follow of course. However we need to do some further testing and you can count with a release in a few weeks…
I want to thank Philip for his tireless bugfixing and building of LiveCDs and lots of packages. As well as Guillaume for his efforts in plymouth, the gnome edition and useful ideas. At the same time I want to thank Allesandro for managing our forum and for providing support. However the biggest “Thank You” goes to our great community!
Enhancements to point out
- We updated to linux 3.5-series
- MHWD got better hybrid card support and Optimus works on more card combinations. Some bugs also have been fixed.
- Our CLI-Installer got improved.
- A patched LXDM replaces LightDM with a complete new Manjaro theme.
- Syslinux got a new layout and got translated to followed languages: Argentinian, Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.
- Followed languages we fully support now: American English, Belarusian, British English, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Deutsch, Espanol, Espanol (Argentina), Francais, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
- XFCE edition get’s shipped on a DVD with more apps and printer-support out of the box.
- We added some more support to start Manjaro easier from your USB-Stick
- Development packages for AUR got added including packer and yaourt
- All translation-packages get installed during startup and our installer
- A new drivers-overlay starts our LiveDVD faster
- Small package updates to fix reported bugs
- Lot’s of bugfixes since our 0.8.0 release
Download Manjaro 0.8.1
Release Note
Kind regards
Roland Singer
Posted in: general
Downloading now ….. Right from the 0.8 release, Manjaro was main OS on both my laptop and my office PC. Till now, I’ve no complaints at all except that I feel the infinality font patches should be pre-installed. I’m waiting for the KDE version too. Really a great job, cheers to all the team.
However, I don’t find any fun in the above picture on Microsoft. Not fair. I would feel equally bad if Microsoft people put a picture with their windows smashing the little linux penguin with a hammer.
We only smash Mastersoft. Do you know that company
Hey together, I only want to say:
Thank you, for your restless, crazy but always great work.
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I was until know very pleased with the 0.8-Version, but your announcement look very interesting.
I will try later to install the new Version.
By the way, a maybe stupid question, it is possible to update or upgrade a running system, to the new Version. I mean not only update the newest package, but the new added package also.
However, I am not a nerd, but only a political Linux-user and so I hope to can support you in the near future.
But know I’am sad because, I wish you crashed MS and Apple already. What the problem with Mastersoft?
thx
Totox
Yes just do a simple sudo pacman -Syu and your system is up-to-date. Standard programs which changed in our livecd have to be installed manual if you want to use them…
lol, I didn’t see even the Mastersoft text^^
Well, Mastersoft is à synonyme. Microsoft maybe we get smashed
Thx for reply even my stupid question.
Amazing work.
Yes, I’ve already down pacman -Syu and everything is perfect
This weekend I will install the 0.8.1 dvd-Version on an other PC and you will conquer distrowatch
cool. download is running. i am looking foward too.
manjaro seems to be a perfect combination from the best surface xfce like in
phinx: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=phinx
and
the good and easy arch-installation like in
bridge: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bridge
greetings from germany!!!
i will give you a feedback after installation.
never heard something about phinx. hope you like our release
phinx based on pclinuxos. its a nice xfce version, very light and fast.
bridge is like manjaro. based on arch but without own repos.
ah k. I know bridge linux
Thanks for your work
I have read the release notes and I understand GPT partitioning – in fact i only need to read and assign them – at the installer script is not yet implemented.
I am still waiting this feature to install it in bare metal, meanwhile i tested it at one virtual machine and it will be at my HDD some day.
Good you mentioned it. We will get this implemented.
How do you track your translations? I would be interested in contributing.
Currently we use the forum or our e-mails. But a wiki page should be added to manage this
Depending on the format, you may consider a tool like Transifex. Very beginner-friendly to contributors.
Good to know that. I’ll test this and then I’ll setup a wiki page how to contribute translations
Edit: Hmm this is a complete webinterface. I currently don’t have time to set this up. We might do this in a later stage of manjaro.
It works as a service. But I understand if it seems like a bit much at the moment.
You might take a look at Nosonja Linux. It uses PacmanXG4 as a very good package manager. PacmanXG4 can see and easily install packages from both the Arch and AUR repositories.
(Nosonja is currently experiencing problems and they say that a new version will be issued)
http://nosonja.org/
Currently we are using gnome-packagekit. After 0.9 it is planed to use our own gui for pacman which is already in a good state
Hi Packagekit is a good option, do not change it (not on the 0.8)
Very nice
Thanks for your work
Manjaro is the best distro Xfce
Two questions when will be released the Gnome version? and it will use nemo as it’s FM or will continue using Nautilus as its FM?
I can’t tell you when we will release the Gnome version. We need to do some further testing and I also need to finish some seminar papers
we will stay with nautilus for the next release. however as soon as we tested nemo I can tell you more about it
OK thank you, what version of Gnome will come with it? 3.6 or the old 3.4?
3.4 series. 3.6 isn’t even in Arch Linux testing repos.
Cool, but remember the 3.6 will come on September 26 so will be avalible very quickly so I do not know what will you do
Gnome needs anyway some more time, because I can’t upload the isos right now with my current 40bk/s upload speed^^. As soon as gnome is in Arch stable, we will build an updated gnome version
Cool I will wait for it; only a final thing PLEASE compile VBA-M and the googltalk-plugin from AUR and add it to your repos you will simplify the life of your gamer and IM lover users and the mine too, you have Snes9X on your repos only I need VBA-M to complete my gaming repertory and you will make Manjaro even easier to your users
Sorry, we will concentrate on our system first before adding some packages to our repos…
Cool
so, my installation was without problems and the manjaro xfce runs perfectly and fast on my hardware http://fabdo.posterous.com/pages/pc-hardware
like it very much – thanks for your work!!!!
Glad to hear that!
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I have only installed Manjaro in a virtual machine until now but I think it has great potential! Installation was very simple, straightforward and fast. Usage is also very fast. The overal look very pleasant.
Some minor (really) points though:
Desktop icon background should be transparent or easily be made transparent without creating and editing files.
Your conky is nice and looks cool. I don’t like it as a standard though as it has moving parts and destracts/annoyes me over time. So I think it shouldn’t be there or at least easier to get rid off (I deleted it from autostart folder as there was no entry in the Xfce sessions and startup).
During installation it should be asked which keyboard layout the user wants to use. As it is now you have to edit keyboard settings within Xfce after installation for non US keyboard layout. (I guess you could have done it during installation in some config file? But I forgot wehre it is configured in Arch so I haven’t done it and it can’t be expected anyway from the user to know I believe).
Another point is I don’t understand how the update process works. There is a GUI-tool to configure when updates are to be done and if they are supposed to be automatically installed. Does that work? (Here I have to admit I haven’t informed myself to much and should have done so but it could be more intiutive probably).
Hope I don’t annoy anyone as that wasn’t my intention. I also know you can’t do it right for everyone.
Anyway I’m keen to test it on a real machine soon! Keep on the good work! And thanks for providing Manjaro!
“Desktop icon background should be transparent or easily be made transparent without creating and editing files.”
We will fix this in a later version.
@conky: you just could have used conky-control from the system panel to disable conky. you should check out all the other available configs.
@installer. the cli installer isn’t our main installer. the gui installer in 0.9 will be mainly used.
@update: use pacman -Syu to update the system. the gui package manager (packagekit) is ok but will be replaced in a later version…
Hi.
I downloaded and installed it.
it works grat and the xfce configuration and software collection is good.
thanks.
can someone please upload a torrent and seed because the download keeps breaking on my slow internet. even uget is not helping. keeps saying broken mirrors when i know the mirrors are tested.
thanks
There is a torrent available: http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=323.msg2027#msg2027
thanks
and sorry for the sloppy internet search job. most torrents didnt work though, and also they were out-dated.
by the way can more people please seed. the torrents are hardly working. thanks
I think this is only a matter of time
Are you working on a Fluxbox or Openbox version of Manjaro. I think Fluxbox is not receiving the amount of attention it deserves. You guys seem pretty talented and enthusiastic so I’m hoping to see something more interesting than xfce and gnome
We are working on an openbox edition. We already made some builds but currently the gui installer has priority
Hopefully there won’t a lot of xfce components in the openbox. version
No. It will be minimal.
this is a superb distro which im running in virtualbox on win 7…how the hell do you install this on a mainly win 7 laptop (to 40 gig of unallocated space) with a 100gig partition for windows 7 and a partition of 160 gig for data storage????? is there an ‘idiots guide’ out there that i’ve somehow missed?
You could wait for our GUI installer which will come in 0.9. Or you boot the Manjaro LiveCD and use GParted (In the Application Menu) to resize your Windows partition and to create a new partition for Manjaro and one small partition (~2GB) for the swap. Format it as ext4 and as swap. Then install the system to it.
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Best linux distro by far! keep up the good work!!
Thank you
Hi Roland
Brilliant work
For a moment i thought that lightDM hadn’t been removed. but it was LXDM alright but way better than it’s ever been. great work! It has all the components i like in arch but betterlooking than the vanilla look. i’m very grateful. thanks so much for this release.
recommending this distro to all my favourite linux blogs. Manjaro linux needs more recognition.
Great work team!
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