FruitBANG is a live ISO version of ArchBang running the MangoWM Wayland compositor — a fork of dwl, which itself is a Wayland port of dwm. If you know that lineage, you already have a feel for what MangoWM is about. For everyone else — tiling, tag-based layout, minimal config, no framework overhead. More capable … Want some Mango? Then try out FruitBANG
Archlinux has updated kernel a few times this week. Fresh image is up. Rebuilt the ISO to include latest kernel — just keeping things current for anyone doing a new install. Existing users don’t need to do anything; a sudo pacman -Syu keeps you fully up to date as always. This one’s purely for new … ISO rebuilt with kernel 7.0.8
Finally got around to testing ArchBang on my laptop and the first thing I noticed was the ugly battery icon. As I have a desktop and test iso in a virtual machine I never really see battery module. Anyway easy fix which is now included on latest iso image, uploading it now with latest kernel. … Battery icon looks ugly lets fix it….
As with all things Arch, kernel was updated overnight so am rebuilding and uploading a fresh image. One other change that I have made is that sudo post install will require password. Older versions worked in the same way as live and not sure it is sure a good thing to do with the current … Quick update to iso to include latest kernel….
Been working over past week to get a new release ready, was waiting for Arch to put out 7.0 kernel image and finally it arrived. You will find a very fresh new summer look for iso image, quite pleased with the result and starting to get Waybar [panel] looking good. Over weekend I will update … The wait is over Summer has arrived…..
GreenBANG has quite a few changes over the past week, some are quite major in relation to its running. I have removed Firefox from image for two reasons reduce image size and the fact without a network connection there is little point in running it. Package management too is pointless without a network connection. So … GreenBANG major changes and more testing to be done.
Well got some good news, managed after quite some work to get GreenBANG running using squashfs. What does this mean? Well instead of whole filesystem going into ram it now loads from squashed image packages,settings etc…leaving more ram for running applications. With Firefox added you would need 4Gb of ram to even to able to … GreenBANG has got squashed!!!
This week has been mostly trying to get Alpine linux to act like Archiso with varying levels of success. Alpine by default loads everything into ram. Packages are in a compressed file along with any root files. This is fine for a tty/console based iso image that is not on the heavy side. Once you … Updated ArchBang and how is GreenBang going….
Have been working away adding more features to GreenBANG up to the point of shipping with Firefox. Managed to get a dynamic menu running of sorts. Switched out PcManFM for Thunar which allowed me to add mousepad [a l3afpad replacement]. Image size of course has grown to just over 800Mbs still well below ArchBang for … I may have hit a roadblock in GreenBANG….
I think most of my users figured out that my blog post in the week was an April Fools Joke. Certainly not stopping work in ArchBang unless a government agency has other ideas. Have been working on a new project for a couple of weeks now and wanted to share what I have so far … GreenBang lives again, but this time uses Alpine Linux…..