Developer | Levente Polyak and others[a] |
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OS family | Unix-like |
Working state | Current |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | March 11, 2002 |
Latest release | (Rolling release) / Installation medium 2020.07.01[1] |
Repository | |
Marketing target | Power-users |
Update method | Pacman |
Package manager | Pacman |
Platforms | i686, x86-64 |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
Userland | GNU |
Default user interface | Bash |
License | Free software licenses (mainly GPL)[2] |
Official website | archlinux |
Arch Linux (usually just called Arch) is a Linux-based operating system for 64-bit computers.[3] It mostly has free software included with it,[4] and supports community involvement.[5]
Arch Linux focuses on elegance, code correctness, minimalism, and simplicity, and to use it, the user needs to have a motive to learn about it.[6] A package manager made only for Arch Linux named "pacman" can be used to install, remove and update packages of software on the computer.
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