| Recently, the official website of the Dragon Architecture Arch Linux distribution announced the end of the beta state and officially supports the Dragon Architecture (LoongArch). |
Arch Linux is a lightweight, customizable, and flexible Linux operating system. As a simple, modern, and open operating system, Arch Linux aims to provide a minimal core system based on the "KISS principle" (Keep It Simple philosophy), and allow users to highly customize and optimize it according to their own needs.
Arch Linux's package manager pacman can easily manage, install, upgrade and delete software packages, and supports the use of AUR (Arch User Repository) to install user-defined packages. At the same time, Arch Linux also provides extensive documentation and community support to help users easily find and solve common problems, and also allows users to participate in the development and maintenance of the operating system.
Due to its light weight, simplicity, and flexibility, Arch Linux is often regarded as the operating system of choice for power users, developers, and Linux enthusiasts.
In 2021, in order to facilitate the development and testing of patches, Loongson will port Arch Linux to the Dragon architecture platform during the process of submitting patches to the upstream community.
As the number of users using Arch Linux continued to increase, Loongson also continued to maintain and develop, and successively released the alpha version (2021.07), beta1 version (2022.03), and beta2 version (2022.09).
Starting from the beta2 version, Arch Linux tracks and integrates the latest upstream porting results in a timely manner, and uses rolling updates to push upgrades for users.
At present, the dragon architecture Arch Linux has been continuously upgraded for three quarters, and the software warehouse has transplanted many desktop environments including Gnome, KDE, Mate, XFCE, LXDE, Cinnamon, DDE, UKUI and a large number of open source software, and supports users to directly Installing AUR software can meet the different needs of various users.
Overall Migration Progress
According to statistics, the core warehouse of the current Arch Linux x86_64 version contains 263 software packages, and the extra warehouse contains 13325 software packages, a total of 13588 software packages; the core warehouse of the Arch Linux Dragon architecture version contains 261 software packages, and the extra warehouse contains 10259 software packages. software packages, a total of 10,520 software packages; the overall migration progress is about 77% of x86_64, and the software package warehouse will be gradually improved while continuing rolling upgrades.