1. Informations

  • Package management: pacman-g2 (command line)

  • Linux kernel 2.6 (no 2.4 support)

  • The latest documentation is here.

  • Hardware requirements and list of supported architectures are in the Installation section of the documentation.

2. Features

  • Stable releases every 6 months

  • Security support for stable releases

  • Text mode installation

  • Optional graphical installation

  • Offline installation, netboot install supported

  • Prebuilt CD/DVD/USB hybrid, TFTP images are available

  • Localization supported whereever it’s possible

  • About 5000 source packages and (as of March 2011) 6000 binary packages supported.