At the beginning of the month, we were very sad to learn Jonathon Fernyhough had passed away. He was a previous member of the Manjaro Team and valuable contributor to the GNU/Linux community. I learned a lot from him before I first became a Forum Moderator and then a Manjaro Team member. You’ll be sorely missed, Jonathan! Discussion here in our Member Hub: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/very-bad-news-for-linux-community-jonathon-passed-away/131334 2 posts - 1 participant Read full topic

Branch compare is now online, you can read more about it here. https://packages.manjaro.org 4 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

The official Manjaro public channel should be a safe place for everyone to socialize and talk Linux while they have the chance to escape the current world for a few minutes. Since I don’t have time to manage channel moderation on a individual basis, I have setup an anti-spam and automatic ban bot. Bans are irreversible and go to a database, which means it’s applied on any Telegram group you might be active in. This might sound unfair but there is more important things to do that to manually moderate a channel. How do you prevent being permanently banned? Don’t spam, don’t post political views and other things that should not be on a Linux channel. 9 posts - 8 participants Read full topic

Great news on the hardware sector! twitter.com Manjaro Linux @ManjaroLinux 8.32 - 21. tammik. 2022 206 58 We have worked together with MinisForum to create a Linux-powered Mini PC which is now finally available in their shop. The EliteMini UM700 is just 128 x 127 x 46 mm (5″ x 5″ x 1.8″) small and weighs only 500 grams but is a really versatile powerhouse with an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H CPU with 4 cores / 8 threads and a base clock of 2.3 GHz that can be boosted up to 4.0 GHz. It has 4 MB of L3 cache, comes with a Radeon RX Vega 10 1400 MHz GPU and an onboard Wi-Fi 5 AC7265 module. Up to three monitors can be connected and also the variety of remaining interfaces is plentiful. With its specs and the pre-installed, tailor-made Manjaro-system it will serve as the perfect platform for Steam Deck developers, as suggested in Valve’s blog post. But, with its extremely compact format, it can just as well be an ideal daily driver for many office or leisure environments. As a special bonus the first 1000 boxes will include a license of CrossOver Linux One which enables users to run many Windows games, utilities and other applications at native speeds, seamlessly incorporating into the Manjaro desktop environment. They are shipping world wide and prices are really competitive. The base model (8GB RAM / 256GB SSD) goes for 469 USD, the boxes with bigger RAM and SSD are 499 USD (16/256GB) and 539 USD (16/512GB). Some more technical details: On the front we have a power button, 3.5mm headphone jack, 2 USB Type-A ports and 1 USB Type-C port, a digital mic and a reset hole. On the back we have 2 more USB 3.1 Gen2 ports, 1 HDMI port, 1 DisplayPort, a power port and a Kensington Lock And an Ethernet port. The top plate can very easily be opened by pressing down at the front corners. You can simply pop it up and slide it off to access the internal parts of the machine, which makes it extremely easy to upgrade its RAM and storage. You will find a 2.5” SATA 3.0 slot to add an SSD or mechanical disk, dual-channel DDR4 slots to add up to 64GB of RAM and a M.2 2280 PCIE NVMe port for SSD. MinisForum provides a 2 years warranty for purchases from the official store. The package include a manual, the computer itself, a power brick, a VESA mount to mount it on the back of monitor, HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort cables.
>> MinisForum online shop 11 posts - 7 participants Read full topic

As mentioned yesterday on Twitter already, we have some issues with manjaro.org and ping.manjaro.org. This might continue to be the case for today.
Old IPs 2a01:4f8:150:448b::1 176.9.38.148 New IPs 2a01:4f8:c0c:51f3::1 116.203.91.91 We updated our DNS entries to point to the new server. However this may take time to been picked up by all of them. You can add the following entries to your /etc/hosts file and restart dnsmasq: sudo systemctl restart dnsmasq.service 116.203.91.91 manjaro.org 116.203.91.91 ping.manjaro.org
Status of the Services [up] Homepage [up] NetworkManager Connectivity Check [up] Branch Compare [up] Mail-Server [in progress] Restore Emails [up] WebMail Client [in progress] Mailing-Lists [down] Classic English Forum (we won’t bring back) [down] Classic German Forum (we won’t bring back)
Here are some new links via CDN77.com
Download XFCE (click for more details) Download GNOME (click for more details) Download KDE (click for more details) Latest release-candidate can be found here: https://github.com/manjaro/release-review/releases/tag/202107281031 18 posts - 10 participants Read full topic

Los Angeles/Munich - 2021-04-06 The world has so many devices which are good for Internet browsing, but may lack the security and regular operating system updates. By transferring your desktop into the cloud, you get the latest software and updates on the device you want to use. So we looked for a partner to provide the Manjaro experience optimized as a service via cloud computing. Today, we are happy to announce our partnership with shells.com, a virtual machine pioneer based in the U.S. Shells, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, is a desktop as a service (DaaS) provider focused on closing the digital divide by providing a simplified solution for developers, schools, small businesses, and the masses. With the ability to set up their machines in less than five minutes with the operating system of their choice, as well as servers strategically placed around the world, the company ensures customers have a seamless virtual desktop experience. Together we bring the future of computing to everyone. Using an internet-based method to turn idle screens - smart TVs, tablets, older or low-spec laptops, smartphones, and more - into fully functional computers, the Shells service facilitates learning, working, and creating from anywhere. Linux operating systems have always been well-known to the tech savvy, but remain relatively unknown to the general public with a desktop operating system market share of only around 2%. “We hope that Shells can help lower the barrier of entry for the new user to try a Linux operating system with our easy-to-use product. Although Linux operating systems may already be widely used in many industries and enterprises, the adoption of Linux for personal use is not as widespread. We hope to open doors to new users with Shells so they can see the power and benefits that Linux brings to computing. We have enjoyed working closely with Manjaro as we have similar aspirations and look forward to giving current and future Manjaro users the ability to take their desktop with them on any device,” said Shells CEO Alex Lee.
Check out the special offers and get your personal cloud computer for low as 3,30 USD for a limited time only! 12 posts - 11 participants Read full topic

Here is the reason for updating GRUB. See here for original article in German: Grub 2: Acht neue Schwachstellen im Bootloader | heise online Grub 2: Eight new vulnerabilities in the bootloader The developers of Grub 2 have reported several vulnerabilities. Some of them can bypass Secure Boot again, which significantly complicates the update process. A whole bunch of security patches is pending for the bootloader GNU Grub 2. While some of these are delivered via package updates in Linux distributions, the complete elimination of all eight reported gaps requires that signatures be revoked again in UEFI Secure Boot. This approach sounds familiar, after all, this was necessary in the middle of last year to the error “Boothole” in GNU Grub 2. But an updated revocation list of the vulnerable shims for the key database (DBX) is problematic, as the maintainer Daniel Kiper emphasizes in his message on the mailing list. In some cases, a fix for all gaps found is therefore currently not feasible on some systems, because then Secure Boot would no longer work at all, says Kiper. A lengthy undertaking The current update is intended to fix eight vulnerabilities. These were discovered in the course of a cleanup after “Boothole” in a major effort by three dozen external developers and the maintainers of the bootloader. At least some of the loopholes can be exploited to reload kernel modules without a valid signature despite an active Secure Boot. A detailed description of the individual gaps is provided by the announcement by Kiper. If you want to fix this correctly, updating the faulty code is not enough. In addition, the signatures of the vulnerable versions must be at least partially blocked. However, this can mean that some systems can no longer start with Secure Boot. There are already specific advisories from Debian, from Canonical to Ubuntu, by Red Hat and by Suse, which provide more specific information about the update process. All advisories emphasize that the thorough elimination of all gaps will be a lengthy undertaking in several steps and may also require rework by the administrators of the affected systems. Therefore we recommend to reinstall grub on your systems, to apply all those fixes. For users with dual-boot to Windows, you may want to restore the old behavior for enabling os-prober detecting your other OSs beside Manjaro. For that simply open a terminal and issue echo GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false|sudo tee -a /etc/default/grub && sudo update-grub 93 posts - 40 participants Read full topic

Manjaro has offered support for PINE64 devices since the very beginning – with high-quality OS builds now available for nearly all of Pine64 SBCs and devices – and the PinePhone is no exception in this regard. This community edition will ship in a custom presentation box designed by Manjaro’s artwork team, and the PinePhone itself will feature a sleek-looking Manjaro logo on the back-cover. This PinePhone CE will be available in two hardware configurations: $149 — 2GB RAM; 16GB eMMC $199 — 3GB RAM; 32GB eMMC (includes a bundled USB-C dock) Both configurations of the Manjaro CE PinePhones feature rev. 1.2a PCBA. The $199 hardware variant, called convergence package , also features a USB-C dock equipped with 10/100 Ethernet, 2x USB type A ports, HDMI digital video output and power-in via USB-C. The Manjaro PinePhone CE OS image, which will ship with the upcoming PinePhones, was sent to the factory just the other day. Personally, we feel that this is the most end-user ready OS image to ship on the PinePhone thus far. The OS image ships with Phosh and is probably the smoothest experience on the PinePhone to date. It features a solid variety of well-tuned applications to get you started, including Firefox, GNOME Maps and Megapixels camera application, just to mention a few. Don’t get us wrong, the software will still require a layer of polish to be considered ‘daily-driver’ worthy by a broader audience, but we have been running it exclusively on our phones for weeks and it has been a great experience so far. You can still pre-order it now. 12 posts - 8 participants Read full topic

Any chat users will have annoucements/tweets/videos redirected to the channel, reply’s and messages can also be setup, follow instructions here. Telegram Manjaro Public official Manjaro group, off topic and general socializing, please respect others. How to set up forum chat link for reply’s and mentions via Telegram Forum Send a message to the @PostNotifyBot, you’ll receive a message back that looks like: To get notifications for Discourse, enter the ‘Chat ID’ 1234567 in your user preferences Visit your Discourse user preferences, and paste the number in the Telegram Notifications box You should now receive notifications by telegram message! 34 posts - 16 participants Read full topic

We had a good run with Nvidia 340xx driver series. However, at some point also we have to drop that driver. With Manjaro 19.0 release we will remove that driver from mhwd-db. This means the driver won’t be recommended or detected by our distro by default. 340.108 was the last release by Nvidia to support X 1.20 and Kernel 5.4. As soon as there is an update to X that driver is gone. Click to view the poll. 64 posts - 32 participants Read full topic