Arkane Linux - New Linux Distribution Arch-based with Gnome Desktop

 

Arkane Linux is an immutable distro based on Arch Linux featuring atomic system updates. It utilizes a custom toolkit called Arkdep to build, deploy and maintain a collection of deployments each one being a full Arkane Linux installation. If a new deployment has a bug or some other issues you can easily fall back to an older deployment, if an update were to somehow fail or be interupted no changes will be made to the system.

Arkane Linux is Arch-based, however the Arkdep toolkit is distro agnostic by design, as long as the Arkdep script receives a collection of Btrfs subvolume exports in the format it expects the system should work with virtually any distro. Imagine getting bored of Arch and deciding to just jump over to Debian using a single command without losing any data and while maintaining the ability to roll back to Arch again by simply rebooting back in to the old deployment.

Features : 

Sensible defaults

Arkane Linux avoids unnecessary and intrusive functionality and configuration, it provides a stock gnome-shell bundled exclusively with core apps required to offer a minimal yet full-featured GNOME desktop experience. Every effort is made to debloat and streamline there where deemed required without affecting functionality.

Multi-root architecture

Did an upgrade introduce a bug or some other issue? Just roll back to the previous deployment of the system, it is probably still installed. This architecture adds an additional layer of stability guarantee to your system, an unusable system after an update with no easy way of recovering is a thing of the past.

Tailing the bleeding edge

By default Arkane Linux is configured with and to make use of currently relevant and/or upcoming technologies and software. For example Arkane ships with mutter-dynamic-buffering by default and will adopt promissing GNOME Circle application as default once deemed mature and suitable upgrades over the old offerings.

Arkdep

Arkdep is a system utilized to build, manage and atomically deploy an immutable, Btrfs-based, multi-root system. Think of it as a package manager which reinstalls your entire OS upon update leaving the old deployment untouched and available should you wish to roll back to the pre-update state.

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