Manjaro 17.1.7 celebrates the diversity with 12 preconfigured images

The Manjaro Linux has achieved a lot within a short span of time. It is a distribution that makes the geeky Arch Linux accessible for the masses who don't know or don't want to play with the messiness of Arch. Manjaro distributions are well known for providing a reliable experience for it's user ranging from absolute beginners to experts. Now, there is one more reason to choose Manjaro as your default operating system. The latest release of Manjaro, Manjaro 17.1.7 provides 12 preconfigure images to install the operating system.

When Arch provides the base installation image and asks the users to install packages as per their requirements, Manjaro provides several preconfigured editions to attract users from diverse backgrounds. Each Manjaro edition features a desktop environment and provides a set of applications to satisfy users basic needs. Some of the editions are officially maintained by Manjaro team itself, while some other editions are maintained by the community members. Instead of providing a vanilla desktop experience, most of the Manjaro editions will be shipped with a branded theme and icons.

A preview of Manjaro Editions (Courtesy : Manjaro Project)

Manjaro Official Editions.

Manjaro team officially supports are maintains 3 different flavors, Xfce Edition, Plasma Edition and GNOME Edition.

Manjaro Xfce Edition - As the name indicates, Manjaro Xfce edition features lightweight, yet versatile desktop environment. It is mainly developed for old and low resource machines, while it works well on latest machines also. The Manjaro Xfce edition ships Xfce desktop without compromising the visual aesthetics and user experience.

KDE Edition - This edition features KDE Plasma desktop environment and provides a modern user experience. While very user-friendly and certainly flashy, KDE is also quite resource heavy and noticably slower to start and use than a desktop environment such as XFCE.

GNOME Edition - This is a new member in official manjaro flavors. It features GNOME shell with several applications and tools.

Manjaro Community Editions

In addition to the official editions, there are some manjaro editions maintained by the community. Depending on the interest of users and availability of resources to work with, some of these editions provides regular updated images while some other provides updated images in a while. At the moment, all of these flavors provides Manjaro 17.1.7 images.

The manjaro community flavors can be listed as follows:

• Awesome
• Bspwm
• Budgie
• Cinnamon
• Deepin
• I3
• Lxde
• Mate

In addition to these 11 flavors, Manjaro also provides a special image called Manjaro-Architect. It helps you to install the operating system as you wish.

Download Manjaro 17.1.7

You can download Manjaro 17.1.7 images from project's official download page or from new download partner - OSDN.

• Manjaro Download page
• Official Manjaro Editions on OSDN
• Manjaro Community Editions on OSDN

Manjaro community announces Bspwm edition 17.1.4, idles around 120Mb RAM

The Manjaro community has announced the release of Manjaro 17.1.4 Bspwm edition, latest stable snapshot of projects community edition feature BSpwm. This edition of Manjaro is designed to make efficient use of command line and it consumes ~120Mb of RAM on idle state. It provides the Manjaro Architect as the only way for installation and is suitable to use as system rescue images.

Manjaro Bspwm edition 17.1.4

Some of the important highlights in Manjaro Bspwm edition can be summarized as:

• Multipurpose Rofi launcher, combining window switcher, applications launcher, run dialog and web search into one
• Breath gtk3 theme
• proper chromium theming (manjaro-browser-settings-native)
• included (but disabled) lxpolkit
• disabled compositing
• window handling for libreoffice and plank
• awesome new wallpapers by @muser
• icons and image previews in ranger (@oberon hint hint :wink:)
• mate-notification-daemon for clickable update-notifications
• Improved Grub theme (also on installed system)
• Chromium with native window decorations and gtk3 theme by default: 

For more information, discussions and screenshots of Manjaro Bspwm 17.1.4 release, see original post shared in Manjaro Forums.

Manjaro Cinnamon 17.0.4 released

The Manjaro community has announced release of Manjaro Cinnamon 17.0.4, latest stable release of popular Manjaro community flavor featuring Cinnamon desktop environment. This release of Manjaro Cinnamon brings Cinnamon Desktop 3.4.6, latest stable releases of XApps and other applications required to deliver stock Cinnamon experience.

Manjaro Cinnamon 17.0.4 being an updated snapshot of a rolling distribution, does not force existing users for a fresh installation. Instead, a contineous update is possible from existing installations.

In addition to updated packages from Manjaro core and community repositories, Manjaro Cinnamon 17.0.4 brings complete applications from X-apps stack with latest versions of pix, xed, xplayer, xreader and xviewer. It also inlcudes applications like Cinnamon sounds, lightdm-slick-greeter and also file manager nemo includes a bulk renaming option.

Following are some widely used applications packed with Manjaro 17.0.4 Cinnamon release:

• Firefox 55.0.3
• Thunderbird 52.3.0
• Libreoffice 5.4.1
• Gimp 2.8.22
• Transmission-gtk 2.92
• Gnome-system-monitor
• Pamac package manager version 5.1.1
• Manjaro-printer
• Calamares 3.1.4
• Manjaro Architect 0.9.2

For more information and related discussions see original release announcement and forum discussions respectively.

Manjaro Cinnamon 17.0 Screenshots

Station X introduces Manjaro powered Spitfire laptop

In collaboration with Manjaro team, Station X, a specialized Linux laptop/Desktop vendor has announced Spitfire Manjaro Special Edition. Spritefire Manjaro Edition laptop will be powered by fully hardware tuned versions of Manjaro Xfce flag ship edition, which comes with intricate kernel tweaks, to streamlined settings, and even custom changes to battery, cpu, and sound settings..etc

Powered by 7th generation Intel processors, Spritfire is one among the sleekest laptops available in the market. It's memory can be expanded up top 32 GB. In order to provide a good combination of hardware and software, Splitfire laptop model has undergone serious changes, and in combination with fine tuned Manjaro Xfce edition, it is expected to give ultimate user experience.

The key features of Spitfire Manjaro Special Edition includes:

• 7th Gen Intel® Core™ CPUs (i5-7200u or i7-7500u)
• INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 610/620
• Backlit Keyboard
• Silver Aluminium Chassis
• DDR4 Memory Support up to 32 GB of RAM
• Ultra thin: just 17.8mm!
• Full HD IPS 1920 x 1080
• SuperFast SSDs (up to 500 GB)
• SuperSpeed USB 3.0
• HDMI Output Connection
• Mini Display Port
• 1.0MP Webcam
• Wireless Fitted as Standard

Spitfire laptops are not currently available for purchase. However, by 13th of October, Manjaro team will open counter for pre-order in a dedicated hardware section of their website. It is planned to ship first batch of laptops by end of October.

Manjaro 17.0.4 fixes issue with graphical package manager and installer in 17.0.3 release

It was just at the beginning of this week, Manjaro team announced release of Manjaro 17.0.3, scheduled final release in Manjaro 17.x series. Now, Manjaro team is back with release announcement of Manjaro 17.0.4 an unscheduled bug fix release. This release fixes issues with graphical package manager and installer shipped in previous release. It also includes bug fixes for Mesa Stack.

Manjaro 17.0.4 includes all 3 flavors made available in 17.0.3 release, which are Xfce, KDE Plasma and GNOME.

A preview of Manjaro 17.0 KDE Edition (Courtesy : DistroScreens)

In addition to various bug fixes, Manjaro 17.0.4 release also includes package updates from stable repository till today (8th September 2017). It will be help people using this release to save some amount of band width will updating their system post installation.

Citing from official release announcement for Manjaro 17.0.4:

Manjaro Gellivara was a great release! Now we are proud to announce v17.0.4, our hopefully final release of Gellivara. We found some issues with our graphical package managers and installer, the shipped Mesa-Stack in combination with KDE and decided therefore to fix those with a new release of our ISOs. These ISOs also include all other updates from today’s stable release.

For the original release announcement and related discussions see manjaro blog and manjaro forums respectively. You can also read release announcement for Manjaro 17.0.3 to get an overview of features.

Manjaro 17.0.3 Gellivara released; GNOME, Plasma & Xfce flavors are available now

Mr Philip Muler, on behalf of Manjaro team and community has announced availability of Manjaro 17.0.3, final snapshot release in Manjaro 17.0.x Gellivara series. This release announcement includes officially supported KDE and Xfce flavors and also community supported GNOME flavors.

Manjaro 17.0.x is considered as a good release considering it's acceptance by the community. Manjaro 17.0.3 is 3rd and final snapshot release in this series. It is a collection of updates done in past two months. In addition to various package updates, main highlights of this release included improved hardware detection, and updated Calamares installer.

Courtesy : Original release announcement

Manjaro 17.0.3 being a snapshot release of a rolling distribution provides option for continues updates. It means, if you are running a previous version of Manjaro, you can update your system via regular means of system update. However, if you are running a pretty old version, you may have to do some addition configurations to avail complete 17.0.3 experience.

The main features of Manjaro 17.0.3 can be summarized as:

• Latest LTS kernel from linux49 series
• Latest Xorg-Stack from v1.19 series
• Latest Plasma5, Apps and Framework and QT
• Updates to our graphical package managers
• Enhancements and Improvements to our Manjaro Tools & Profiles
• MHWD adopted a more efficient way to handle libglx binaries
• Updated and new designed themes and styles
• Updates on Calamares (see changelog)

For more information and download links, see release announcement published in Manjaro blog and Manjaro forums.

Manjaro Deepin 17.0.2 released with updated deepin desktop

Mr Bernhard Landauer, maintainer of Manjaro Deepin edition has announced release of Manjaro Deepin 17.0.2, latest stable snapshot of beautiful Manjaro community supported distribution featuring stunning deepin desktop environment. This release brings latest deepin desktop environment released Deepin Technology Co.

The deepin desktop environment has undergone various visual and performance improvements since previous release. These improvements includes docker mini mode, window preview, optimized 2d rendering of window manager ..etc.

A Quick Preview of Manjaro Deepin 17.0.2 (Courtesy : Manjaro blog)

In addition to updated deepin desktop, Manjaro Deepin 17.0.2 brings other updated packages like Calamares installer, Manjaro Architect, a handful collection of wallpapers from community ..etc. Also as per tradition, this release brings various applications coming from deepin stack such as deepin media player, deepin music, ..etc.

Deepin developers have tweaked their environment quite a lot lately and you will find many new features and effects. Also a lot of development went into their native applications.

From Manjaro side we offer the latest installer Calamares 3.1.1.2 aswell as our new universal CLI-net-installer Manjaro-Architect and some nice new wallpaper contributions from our community.

Deepin stack native applications are included aswell as a variety of other software to cover your everyday needs.

For more information, see original release announcement and forum discussions of Manjaro deepin 17.0.2.

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Manjaro 17.0.2 MATE & LXQt community editions released

Manjaro community developers has announced release of Manjaro 17.0.2 MATE & LXQt editions. The MATE edition of Manjaro provides a traditional looking, yet elegant and modern desktop experience. While Manjaro LXQt edition, features lightweight, yet fully functional LXQt desktop environment which is a good choice for netbooks and old computers.

Manjaro 17.0.2 MATE Desktop

Manjaro 17.0.2 MATE edition ships with MATE Desktop 1.18.x with full GTK3 support. It also includes updated version of Brisk Menu, a modern application menu developed by Solus project in collaboration with other mate communities. Another highlight in this release is adoption of slick greeter as default lightdm greeter. It will provide more compact, slick look for the lightdm greeter.

Netinstalelr on Manjaro LXQt 17.0.2

Manjaro 17.0.2 LXQt edition has a wider user base comparing to MATE edition (statement based on download/day from sourceforge website). This release makes use of Netinstall to provide users with the option to choose the required packages while installation.

For more information on these releases, see original release announcement and separate forum threads for MATE & LXQt editions.

Manjaro 17.0.2 community editions released; Includes budgie, i3, Cinnamon LXDE flavors

Mr Bernhard Landeaur of Manjaro team has announced release of various Manjaro 17.0.2 community editions. So far, Manjaro community developers has prepared updated installation images for i3, budgie, Cinnamon and LXDE flavors and it is expected that mate, deepin and LXQt images will be available soon.

Since Manjaro is a rolling distribution based on Arch, version number does not make much relevance for Manjaro. However, each release includes updated packages till the date of preparing the image and it will help new users to reduce the bandwidth requirement for updating their system. Manjaro 17.0.2 is a minor update for previous major snapshot released, ie, Manjaro 17.0 with code name Gellivara.

Some of the major updates in Manjaro installation image since release of Manjaro 17.0 can be listed as:

• Latest LTS kernel from linux49 series
• Latest Xorg-Stack from v1.19 series
• Latest Plasma5, Apps and Framework and QT
• Updates to our graphical package managers
• Enhancements and Improvements to our Manjaro Tools & Profiles
• MHWD adopted a more efficient way to handle libglx binaries
• Updated and new designed themes and styles
• Updates on Calamares (see changelog)

You can read Manjaro 17.0.2 community edition release announcement in project website.

Manjaro 17.0.2 released with updated installer and improved hardware detection

It has been almost three months since release of Manjaro 17.0 Gellivara. Now, Mr Philip Muller, head of Manjaro project has announced availability of Manjaro 17.0.2, and updated snapshot with various package updates and improvements.

The updated Manjaro installation media comes with updated packages and various other improvements like enhanced Manjaro build tools. Complete changes in Manjaro 17.0.2 can be summarized as follows:

• Latest LTS kernel from linux49 series
• Latest Xorg-Stack from v1.19 series
• Latest Plasma5, Apps and Framework and QT
• Updates to our graphical package managers
• Enhancements and Improvements to our Manjaro Tools & Profiles
• MHWD adopted a more efficient way to handle libglx binaries
• Updated and new designed themes and styles
• Updates on Calamares (see changelog)

You can also find original release announcement in Manjaro blog.