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DistroWatch published a review on Archcraft 2021.06.06.





Archcraft 2021.06.06

One of the young distributions I have been asked most often to review this year is Archcraft. Archcraft describes itself as a "pure" Arch distribution, meaning it only ships with software available through the Arch Linux software collection. Archcraft includes no desktop environment, shipping with lightweight window managers instead such as Openbox. The Archcraft distribution also includes the handy yay package management tool for easily adding software from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The project reportedly runs with a memory footprint of less than 300MB and includes a small collection of default software.

In short, Archcraft aims to be small, light on resources, compatible with Arch Linux, and is intended to be built up from a relatively small foundation. The project's single edition is available as a 1.6GB download. After downloading the ISO I performed a check of its hash, which passed, but when I followed the distribution's instructions for verifying the ISO's digital signature the project's verification key was nowhere to be found and the provided import instructions failed with a GPG error of "no data" from the key server.
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