We hope you like these releases.
Kind regards

Y.F. Dogan & Cumali, Manjaro Turkey

Manjaro-Turkey Community is happy to announce Manjaro KDE Community Edition 2013.05 based on Manjaro Stable-Repositories.

It features the brand new KDE SC 4.10.2 point release and Razor-Qt 0.5.2. Also Lanzelot and Homerun are preconfigured to get the best experience from your KDE Desktop. We polished Razor-Qt to match KDEs design.

The over 100 recorded bugfixes in this release include improvements to the Personal Information Management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others. KDE’s Development Platform has received a number of updates that affect multiple applications. The complete changes are listed on KDE’s issue tracker.

Notable packages included:

• now we ship with our own dark theming
• you find razor-qt as an alternative desktop
• kdebase-workspace 4.10.2
• linux38 3.8.11-1
• manjaro-settings-manager 0.1.1-1
• mhwd 0.2.7-2
• octopi 0.1.0422-1
• pamac 0.7.3-1
• systemd 202-2
• xorg-server 1.14.1-1

Manjaro-Turkey Community is happy to announce Manjaro Cinnamon/Gnome Community Edition 2013.05 based on Manjaro Stable-Repositories.

It features the brand new Gnome 3.8 point release and Cinnamon 1.7. All packages got updated and the manjaro-tools got better integrated into the system. Issues with mhwd got fixed.

Gnome 3.8 is an intuitive desktop environment that utilises a tablet or smartphone style interface to access applications. It is not compatible with compiz. Although Gnome is very easy to learn and use, its customisation options are quite limited, and it can be difficult to configure. A 64 bit installation of Manjaro running Gnome uses about 220MB of memory.

Cinnamon 1.7.2 is a desktop environment based on Gnome 3 that utilises a large panel-style menu to access applications. It is not compatible with compiz. Despite being based on Gnome, it has more customisation options and is easier to configure. Users of Windows Vista or Windows 7 may find Cinnamon’s interface comfortably familiar. A 64 bit installation of Manjaro running Cinnamon uses about 350MB of memory.

Manjaro-Turkey Community is happy to announce Manjaro Mate Community Edition 2013.05 based on Manjaro Stable-Repositories.

MATE (pronounced ‘Mah-tay’) is best known for its use in the popular Linux Mint distribution. Similar to the XFCE desktop environment, a 64 bit installation of Manjaro running MATE uses about 200MB of memory. MATE itself was developed to appease users of the Gnome 2 desktop after the radical transformation of Gnome 3 into a tablet-like interface.

MATE 1.6 comes with a long list of changes, but nothing like the laundry list of major fixes like in previous updates. Systemd-logind support has been added, Caja has had some minor tweaks, and functionality has been added to the panel.

A lot of work went into our graphical installer we have forked from Linux Mint. Thanks flies out to Clement and his team. We tweaked it a little to fit for Archlinux based Distros. For now only installation on one harddrive is properly supported, but you can mount other other partitions by hand if you choose the manual option. We recommend to use our cli-installers for this matter, which offers still all the features like efi-support and makes it possible to install Manjaro on your Macs.

A common problem with every Linux Distribution is the installation of language localisation packages. With our graphical tool Manjaro Settings Manager we want to make that as easy as possible. Therefore we created nice wizards which will guide you through each step. We will notify you when a new language package came available. Also you can change your system language, keyboard layouts and user management with Manjaro Settings Mananger quite comfortable.

To make the keyboard layout setup as simple as possible we created kbctl, a cli-tool you can set your keyboard to american standard with, for example followed cmd: ‘kbctl -l us‘ – it sets the proper layout for X11 and your console, plus loads it asap.

Pamac, our default graphical package manager, got updated and several bugs got fixed. New features are:

• all panels are resizeable
• packages list is now better displayed with icons
• packages can now be sorted by groups, repos, or state (installed, uninstalled, orphans)
• a size column has been added (corresponding to installed size in all cases).
• the real download size is display now in ConfDialog and in updater window.
• interactive search on name is available in package list panel (choose a long list like “Installed”, click on any package, then type “pacman” on your keyboard).
• orphans are kept by pamac and not uninstalled anymore
• orphans get now listed and can be removed manually
• now translated in : Catalan, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese of Brazil, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish

Alexandre Albuquerque Arnt created Octopi, a powerful tool to manage (Arch | Manjaro) Linux packages. It has a simple interface which consists of just 2 panels:

• A list of all available packages
• And a tab widget showing 6 useful tabs: information, files, transaction, output, news and a quick help guide.

More info about Octopi you can find on the project homepage.

Links
- Download 32 and 64-bit Manjaro 0.8.5.2 Community Editions
- Manjaro Support Forum
- Manjaro Wiki
- How to create USB installation-medias

If you managed to update your current Manjaro 0.8.5 installation, there is no need to reinstall your system. These install-medias are created to ease up the installation for new Manjaro users.

Followed changes are made since Manjaro 0.8.5:

• Graphical installer updated and translated to followed locales: ca, de, el, en, es, it, pt_BR, pt_PT and ro
• Manjaro Settings Manager updated
• Linux 3.8.11 as our kernel
• GTK 3.8 update
• Xorg 1.14.1
• SystemD 202
• Security issue solved

Followed changes are made since Manjaro 0.8.4:

• Graphical installer introduced
• Manjaro Settings Manager introduced
• LXDM/Slim as display manager
• Proprietary driver support for AMD and Nvidia graphic cards
• Additional multimedia support, applications, and access to the AUR have been pre-installed

We hope you enjoy the latest and greatest iteration of Manjaro Linux so far!

Kind regards

Philip Müller and the Manjaro Developers Team

In essence a refined combination of the previous Openbox-Synapse and Openbox-Lite, this release encompasses a lot of changes from the previous releases, including:

• Full multimedia support
• Additional multimedia applications, including Qupzilla, Pamac, VLC, and XNoise
• Revised obmenu-generater based menu
• A brand new look based around AngieMyst’s wonderful “light vines” image

To keep the ISO file size as light as possible, the automatic detection and configuration of graphics cards is not undertaken during the installation process. However, once installed, the appropriate graphics driver can be automatically detected and installed by entering the one of the following commands in the terminal:

sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300

sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300

More information can be found in the wiki guide concerning the installation of graphics cards. Those with AMD / Catalyst graphics cards should also review this guide.

A lot of work went into our graphical installer we have forked from Linux Mint. Thanks flies out to Clement and his team. We tweaked it a little to fit for Archlinux based Distros. For now only installation on one harddrive is properly supported, but you can mount other other partitions by hand if you choose the manual option. We recommend to use our cli-installers for this matter, which offers still all the features like efi-support and makes it possible to install Manjaro on your Macs.

Pamac, our default graphical package manager, got updated and several bugs got fixed. New features are:

• all panels are resizeable
• packages list is now better displayed with icons
• packages can now be sorted by groups, repos, or state (installed, uninstalled, orphans)
• a size column has been added (corresponding to installed size in all cases).
• the real download size is display now in ConfDialog and in updater window.
• interactive search on name is available in package list panel (choose a long list like “Installed”, click on any package, then type “pacman” on your keyboard).
• orphans are kept by pamac and not uninstalled anymore
• orphans get now listed and can be removed manually
• now translated in : Catalan, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese of Brazil, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish

A common problem with every Linux Distribution is the installation of language localisation packages. With our graphical tool Manjaro Settings Manager we want to make that as easy as possible. Therefore we created nice wizards which will guide you through each step. We will notify you when a new language package came available. Also you can change your system language, keyboard layouts and user management with Manjaro Settings Mananger quite comfortable.

To make the keyboard layout setup as simple as possible we created kbctl, a cli-tool you can set your keyboard to american standard with, for example followed cmd: ‘kbctl -l us‘ – it sets the proper layout for X11 and your console, plus loads it asap.

Links
- Download 32 and 64-bit Manjaro 0.8.5.2 Editions
- Manjaro Support Forum
- Manjaro Wiki
- How to create USB installation-medias

We won’t post any small changes on our blog anymore. If you are interested in what has changed, subscribe to the package mailing list.

All used gtk-themes might not work properly with gtk 3.8. We recommend to use our current default theme, which is called adwaita-manjaro-themes or greenbird.  

We now have the following kernels available:

• linux38: 3.8.10 (stable kernel)
• linux34: 3.4.42 (LTS kernel)
• linux39: 3.9.0 (unstable / not all extramodules are ready yet!)

Please use mhwd-kernel to install those kernels. For linux34-series it would be:

sudo mhwd-kernel linux34

Linux35 and Linux37 series got removed. Please remove them first before you update with:

sudo pacman -R linux[XY] linux[XY]-extramodules

Replace [XY] with for example 35.

It is NOT RECOMMENDED to USE PAMAC, PACKER OR YAOURT for this update !!! Please use pacman in a terminal. Also check if your mirror has already synced!

Discuss this update also in our forum.

If you managed to update your current Manjaro 0.8.5 installation, there is no need to reinstall your system. These install-medias are created to ease up the installation for new Manjaro users.

Followed changes are made since Manjaro 0.8.5:

• Graphical installer updated and translated to followed locales: ca, el, en, es, it, pt_BR and ro
• Manjaro Settings Manager updated
• Linux 3.8.8 as our kernel
• Xorg 1.14.1
• Security issue solved

Followed changes are made since Manjaro 0.8.4:

• Graphical installer introduced
• Manjaro Settings Manager introduced
• LXDM/Slim as display manager
• SystemD 198
• Proprietary driver support for AMD and Nvidia graphic cards
• Additional multimedia support, applications, and access to the AUR have been pre-installed

We hope you enjoy the latest and greatest iteration of Manjaro Linux so far!

Kind regards

Philip Müller and the Manjaro Developers Team

In essence a refined combination of the previous Openbox-Synapse and Openbox-Lite, this release encompasses a lot of changes from the previous releases, including:

• Full multimedia support
• Additional multimedia applications, including Qupzilla, Pamac, VLC, and XNoise
• Revised obmenu-generater based menu
• A brand new look based around AngieMyst’s wonderful “light vines” image

To keep the ISO file size as light as possible, the automatic detection and configuration of graphics cards is not undertaken during the installation process. However, once installed, the appropriate graphics driver can be automatically detected and installed by entering the one of the following commands in the terminal:

sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300

sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300

More information can be found in the wiki guide concerning the installation of graphics cards. Those with AMD / Catalyst graphics cards should also review this guide.

A lot of work went into our graphical installer we have forked from Linux Mint. Thanks flies out to Clement and his team. We tweaked it a little to fit for Archlinux based Distros. For now only installation on one harddrive is properly supported, but you can mount other other partitions by hand if you choose the manual option. We recommend to use our cli-installers for this matter, which offers still all the features like efi-support and makes it possible to install Manjaro on your Macs.

Pamac, our default graphical package manager, got updated and several bugs got fixed. New features are:

• all panels are resizeable
• packages list is now better displayed with icons
• packages can now be sorted by groups, repos, or state (installed, uninstalled, orphans)
• a size column has been added (corresponding to installed size in all cases).
• the real download size is display now in ConfDialog and in updater window.
• interactive search on name is available in package list panel (choose a long list like “Installed”, click on any package, then type “pacman” on your keyboard).
• orphans are kept by pamac and not uninstalled anymore
• orphans get now listed and can be removed manually
• now translated in : Catalan, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese of Brazil, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish

A common problem with every Linux Distribution is the installation of language localisation packages. With our graphical tool Manjaro Settings Manager we want to make that as easy as possible. Therefore we created nice wizards which will guide you through each step. We will notify you when a new language package came available. Also you can change your system language, keyboard layouts and user management with Manjaro Settings Mananger quite comfortable.

To make the keyboard layout setup as simple as possible we created kbctl, a cli-tool you can set your keyboard to american standard with, for example followed cmd: ‘kbctl -l us‘ – it sets the proper layout for X11 and your console, plus loads it asap.

Links
- Download 32 and 64-bit Manjaro 0.8.5.1 Editions
- Manjaro Support Forum
- Manjaro Wiki
- How to create USB installation-medias

• stable/core
• stable/extra
• stable/…
• testing/core
• testing/extra
• testing/…
• unstable/core
• unstable/extra
• unstable/…

If you want to change to another branch, then edit “/etc/pacman-mirrors.conf” and change the Branch value to your desired branch:

##
## /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf
##

## Branch Pacman should use (stable, testing, unstable)
Branch=testing
...

It is not recommended to use the unstable repository. New packages in unstable will be moved more frequently to testing in future. There might be a delay of a few hours only. After changing the Branch value, you have to recreate the mirrorlist with:

sudo pacman-mirrors -g

This will rebuild the pacman mirrorlist and will sort the available servers depending on their access time. The rankmirrors script is replaced by pacman-mirrors. However a symlink is kept.

• core
• extra
• community
• multilib on x86_64 systems

Our repositories are now bundled in branches:

• stable
• testing
• unstable

Therefore the directory structure changes and this might require manual interaction to update successfully, depending on which pacman version you have installed.
Please use following commands to update your system:

sudo pacman -Rdd package-query  # If you have it installed
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -Syy package-query  # Reinstall it if necessary 
sudo pacman -Su

If you get a message about a missing /etc/pacman.conf file, then create it with the following command and paste the content depending on your system.

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

For i686 systems:

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc manjaro-system
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst   = manjaro-system pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#TotalDownload
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

For x86_64 systems:

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc manjaro-system
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst   = manjaro-system pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#TotalDownload
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

We created a package called pacman-init based on the code found in ArchISO. It is a service for systemd that initializes a new random GnuPG key on every boot. /etc/pacman.d/gnupg is now stored in RAM using tmpfs and therefor not persistent. With this change the PGP key pair stored there is unique to your machine. This fix is already added in ManjaroISO and will be automatically applied on our your system with the next package update you should do anytime soon.

We recommend to update your system or regenerate your gpg-keys with:

$ rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
$ pacman-key --init
$ pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro 

Make sure pacman’s PGP keys in /etc/pacman.d/gnupg are random and remain secret.

Without Pierre Schmitz, an Archlinux Developer, we would have this security risk a long time. We are not prefect – those things shouldn’t happen at all. Since a lot of our users already generated those keys on their own, the risk should be minimal and shouldn’t affect our community much.

You can discuss this in our forum.

Yusuf and Cumali from Manjaro-Turkey released Manjaro KDE Community Edition 2013.04 based on Manjaro Stable-Repositories. It features the brand new KDE SC 4.10.2 point release. The over 100 recorded bugfixes in this release include improvements to the Personal Information Management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others. KDE’s Development Platform has received a number of updates that affect multiple applications. The complete changes are listed on KDE’s issue tracker.

Notable packages included:

• kdebase-workspace 4.10.2
• linux38 3.8.8 (3.8.6-1 on i686)
• manjaro-settings-manager 0.1.1
• mhwd 0.2.5
• octopi 0.1.0408
• pamac 0.7.0
• systemd 198 (systemd-next 201 on i686)
• xorg-server 1.14.1

LXDE is a super-lightweight desktop environment that is very similar to XFCE, with the exception that it is not compatible with Compiz. As with XFCE, LXDE is also a somewhat basic desktop environment, lacking some modern features that would be expected, such as a search-bar to find applications and files. However, it is also an excellent choice for less powerful computers, as a 64 bit installation of Manjaro running LXDE uses only about 150MB of memory.

MATE (pronounced ‘Mah-tay’) is best known for its use in the popular Linux Mint distribution. Similar to the XFCE desktop environment, a 64 bit installation of Manjaro running MATE uses about 200MB of memory. MATE itself was developed to appease users of the Gnome 2 desktop after the radical transformation of Gnome 3 into a tablet-like interface. Version 1.6 comes with a long list of changes, but nothing like the laundry list of major fixes like in previous updates. Systemd-logind support has been added, Caja has had some minor tweaks, and functionality has been added to the panel. Download the install medias and give it a spin.

A lot of work went into our graphical installer we have forked from Linux Mint. Thanks flies out to Clement and his team. We tweaked it a little to fit for Archlinux based Distros. For now only installation on one harddrive is properly supported, but you can mount other other partitions by hand if you choose the manual option. We recommend to use our cli-installers for this matter, which offers still all the features like efi-support and makes it possible to install Manjaro on your Macs.

A common problem with every Linux Distribution is the installation of language localisation packages. With our graphical tool Manjaro Settings Manager we want to make that as easy as possible. Therefore we created nice wizards which will guide you through each step. We will notify you when a new language package came available. Also you can change your system language, keyboard layouts and user management with Manjaro Settings Mananger quite comfortable.

To make the keyboard layout setup as simple as possible we created kbctl, a cli-tool you can set your keyboard to american standard with, for example followed cmd: ‘kbctl -l us‘ – it sets the proper layout for X11 and your console, plus loads it asap.

Pamac, our default graphical package manager, got updated and several bugs got fixed. New features are:

• all panels are resizeable
• packages list is now better displayed with icons
• packages can now be sorted by groups, repos, or state (installed, uninstalled, orphans)
• a size column has been added (corresponding to installed size in all cases).
• the real download size is display now in ConfDialog and in updater window.
• interactive search on name is available in package list panel (choose a long list like “Installed”, click on any package, then type “pacman” on your keyboard).
• orphans are kept by pamac and not uninstalled anymore
• orphans get now listed and can be removed manually
• now translated in : Catalan, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese of Brazil, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish

Alexandre Albuquerque Arnt created Octopi, a powerful tool to manage (Arch | Manjaro) Linux packages. It has a simple interface which consists of just 2 panels:

• A list of all available packages
• And a tab widget showing 6 useful tabs: information, files, transaction, output, news and a quick help guide.

More info about Octopi you can find on the project homepage.

Links
- Download 32 and 64-bit Manjaro 0.8.5 Community Editions
- Manjaro Support Forum
- Manjaro Wiki
- How to create USB installation-medias