Extra Credit

Arch Linux

Systems and hardware Distributions and package systems
Official docs Learn Arch Linux on your Mac

Official docs outline

11 sections
  1. Installation guide

    Manual installation with pacstrap, genfstab, arch-chroot and boot loader setup.

  2. General recommendations

    Post-install steps for users, privilege escalation, networking and desktop.

  3. pacman

    pacman -S, -R, -Syu, pacman.conf, mirrors and the package database.

  4. Arch User Repository

    AUR helpers, PKGBUILD submission and building AUR packages with makepkg.

  5. PKGBUILD

    Variables such as pkgname, source, depends and functions build() and package().

  6. makepkg

    Building packages from PKGBUILDs with makepkg flags and configuration.

  7. mkinitcpio

    Generating the initramfs with hooks and presets.

  8. systemd on Arch

    systemd usage on Arch including units, timers and journal.

  9. Kernel

    Kernel packages and compilation.

  10. Arch build system

    Building packages from source with ABS and clean chroots.

  11. Network configuration

    systemd-networkd, NetworkManager, DNS resolution and static addresses.

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