This article takes you through the ongoing development and updates of Carli, a customized Arch Linux ISO. We begin by discussing the initial steps of booting from the SSD containing the Carli system, explaining the choices made to simplify the installation process and...

In this video series, we're diving into Carli, a project designed for creating custom Arch Linux ISOs. Here, you'll learn how to build, modify, and maintain your own Linux distribution using Archiso and the Calamares installer. Carli Overview Carli is more than just...

FASE 1We begin by discussing the process of updating and managing the rolling release nature of Arch-based distributions, using an example from a project called Carli. The discussion transitions to building Carli, specifically the Carli 12 version. We delve into...

The video script explains the process of maintaining and updating your ISO, focusing on the changes made to the archiso application. It emphasizes the importance of keeping track of changes and making choices based on user preferences.0:00 🎥 The video is about the...

End October 2023 Arch Linux started renaming KDE packages to reflect the qt5 connection. You can see an example in the above image. What do we need to change to have again a working Carli?

This is a workflow video. You find your own tools and your own workflow but as an isobuilder you need to follow the changes of the archiso package and decide whether to follow them or not.

 Content of the video: we do love the simplicity sddm theme from Gabriel Ibanez we will take that theme as a basis and rename it to viper so it does not conflict with his theme (available on AUR) we use the PKGBUILD and code from ArcoLinux we take a look at the...

Figuring out the error in Calamares took some testing and rebuilding. That is normal - build and test and build and test again Carli 12 works at this point and we go over the changes on our Githubs or folders of Carli. Content of video check the Githubs online...

Since we have made so many new Grub themes for ArcoLinux. One more Grub theme for Carli was in order. Content of video we start with code that we have - so copy/paste we start changing the name we start changing the pkgbuild for the new theme Viper we use Gimp to...

Content of video get the code from Calamares Github we need to compare code and configs with meld we try to figure out why the error is occurring (it is NOT fixed in this video) the issue is at this point still not fixed

Content of video get the content of our Githubs - pkgbuild of Calamares get the code in from https://github.com/calamares/calamares we make choices on how we will use the Calamares Github for a package build later we can fork Calamares and build from there we can...

Content of video packages can either be installed from the Arch Linux repos - pacman - add to the list packages coming from AUR need to be built - build the packages and add them to your repo we use yay to build our packages and show you the workflow man makepkg...

We do want to have an iso that has an amazing look out of the box. In the previous article we figured out what folder/files we need to achieve such a goal. Now we need to package it. Content of video we create a new Github project for our carli-cinnamon-config we...

Out of the box, many desktops out of the box are "not nice" or just unpolished. This is one of the faqs people ask me: how can I make my future distro look amazing? Content of video we need to figure out where any desktop keeps its settings .config .local or ... we...

Content of the video we create a new project on Github called Carli 12 we have a script to download all the Github projects we check what we need to change from Xfce4 to Cinnamon where do we find info about Cinnamon - the Arch Wiki use the tool meld to compare files...

We start with Carli 11 and we show you everything that we need to change if we want to change from Xfce4 to Cinnamon. We have made another change in the paste from Plasma to Xfce4. You can check those videos too. We will create a new configuration for Cinnamon -...