JovarkOS

an Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution striving towards a out of box experience the Linux desktop has never seen before.

Head Maintainer:

Lucas Burlingham

Project Information:

Roadmap: GitHub Project

Based on: Arch Linux

Previously based on: Ubuntu

Desktop Environment: GNOME

Installer: Calamares

JovarkOS online:

Twitter: @jovarkos Discord: Invite Link

How to build

You will need an Arch-based system with the following packages installed:

• git
• make
• archiso

Initial Setup:

1. Clone the jovarkos-dev-env repo using git:

git clone https://github.com/jovarkos/jovarkos-dev-env.git
cd jovarkos-dev-env

2. Install jbuild:

cd jovarkos-jbuild
make all

3. Make changes to the files in jovarkos-config/ if nessasary (please do not push unless you intend to contribute to the project)

Make sure you are in the project's root directory (jovarkos-dev-env) before continuing.

4. Copy an Arch build profile to build from (options are releng & baseline):

jbuild -p releng

We recommend releng for generating a typical Arch ISO with modifications.

The resulting ISO file will be in output/ with the format jovarkos-2022.04.21-x86_64.iso.

5. Run & test the resulting ISO file:

jbuild -r output/jovarkos-2022.04.21-x86_64.iso

Key files to change:

All paths are relative to jovarkos-dev-env/jovarkos-config/archlive/airootfs/. These files will be included in the ISO file, and are subject to be overwritten by installing packages.

• /etc/pacman.conf Pacman configuration
• /etc/hostname Hostname to be used by the booted ISO file
• /etc/os-release os-release Specification
• /etc/locale.conf Should probably be set to:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8