CachyOS 260426 distribution has been released, based on the Arch Linux package base, using a continuous delivery model for updates and popular among computer game enthusiasts. According to the ProtonDB service, the CachyOS project is the most popular Linux distribution (21.1% share) used by gamers.
The distribution is notable for optimizations aimed at improving performance and offering the ability to install various desktop environments. In addition to the base KDE environment, GNOME, Xfce, i3WM, Wayfire, LXQT, OpenBox, Cinnamon, Cosmic, Niri, MangoWM, LXDE, Mate, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland, and Sway are available for installation. The size of the installation ISO image is 3.1 GB. Separate builds (2.8 GB) are available for handheld devices (Handheld Edition) with a GameMode-style interface and components for gaming enthusiasts.
Distributionen inkluderer som standard opgavestyringssystemet BORE, som er optimeret til at reducere forsinkelsen på skrivebordet og øge prioriteten for interaktive processer. Kjernen og pakkerne er samlet med LTO-optimeringer (Link-Time Optimization) og udnytter instruktioner tilgængelige i processorer baseret på mikroarkitekturerne x86-64-v3, x86-64-v4 og Zen4. Ved opbygning af basispakker er PGO-optimeringer (Profile-Guided Optimization) eller BOLT (Binary Optimization and Layout Tool) også inkluderet. Som filsystemer kan btrfs, zfs, ext4, xfs og f2fs anvendes.
Vigtige ændringer:
- The installer features a new package management interface, Shelly, offering both a command-line interface and a GUI based on GTK4 with Wayland support. The package management is handled by the libalpm library. In addition to the main repositories, AUR is supported, and it is possible to install packages in Flatpak format.
- The package selection interface in the installer has been improved, specifically for GNOME-related packages.
- After the installation is complete, a snapshot is created in the filesystem, allowing rollback to the initial state.
- A composite graphical environment has been added to the available installation options. server MangoWM with the DMS (Dank Material Shell) interface. The option to install the UKUI (Ubuntu Kylin User Interface) desktop environment has been removed.
- The GRUB bootloader now includes automatic detection of other installed operating systems through the os-prober package by default.
- The CachyOS-Welcome application settings have added options to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), specify a custom DNS server, view DNS server information, test DNS query latency, install the wezterm terminal emulator, and enable the dmemcg-booster service (which offloads background application data from video memory to system memory to increase the video memory available for active gaming).
- For NVMe devices, the IO scheduler 'kyber' is enabled by default, using separate queues for read and write operations, prioritizing read requests.
- I værktøjet chwd (CachyOS Hardware Detection), der bruges til automatisk at identificere og installere drivere og kerne-moduler, er der tilføjet detektion af USB-enheder, gamekonsollen Xbox ROG Ally og CPU-modeller. På understøttede Intel CPU’er er modulet intel-lpmd aktiveret for at reducere energiforbruget i slumtilstand. Der er tilføjet en hardwareprofil for Wi-Fi Marvell AVASTAR 88W8897, der anvendes i tablet'en Surface Pro 4. NVIDIA-profilerne for pc'er og bærbare computere er adskilt. Profilen for virtual machines.
- Understøttelse af brug af fingeraftrykslæserne til godkendelse af operationer via sudo er blevet tilføjet.
Kilde: opennet.ru
