Archlive

Arch Linux Live/Rescue CD with quality of life features, built with Archiso.

Features

• releng profile based: familiar tools from official Arch Linux ISO
• KDE Plasma powered: say goodbye to daunting tty
• Mainland China users oriented: localized user interface, input method and multiple proxies
• Useful GUI applications added: system maintenance with ease
• Powerful CLI utilities included: supercharge your command line
• Various optimizations: TCP BBR, SysRq and many more

Notes

• Package list is opinionated. If your favorite program isn't included, or you think some packages are bloated, please create an issue/pull request with convincing reasons.
• Default disk label is ARCHLIVE.
• Default user (archlive) is unprivileged as many services should not run as root.
• Default passwords are the same as usernames. sudo can be used without password.

Customization

Make any modification as root. Clone the repository with sudo is recommended.

Please follow the official wiki. If you only want to make changes to pre-installed packages, edit packages.x86_64.

Example: Remove Chinese goodies

Love the setup but not a Mainland China user? There is no patch file currently, but it's easy to manually remove them:

• Install archiso package
• Revert timezone to /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC in /etc/localtime
• Remove zh_CN.UTF-8 from /etc/locale.gen
• Revert locate to en_US.UTF-8 in airootfs/etc/locale.conf
• Remove fcitx5-chinese-addons-git, fcitx5-gtk-git and noto-fonts-cjk in packages.x86_64
• Change firefox-i18n-zh-cn to firefox-i18n-en-us in packages.x86_64
• Remove airootfs/etc/skel/.config/fcitx5
• Run ./build.sh -v as root

And you should be able to get what you want under out.