Official Arch Linux ARM page of the UniBZ Raspberry Pi cluster
Arch Linux ARM
Arch Linux ARM (short "alarm") is a community developed port of the Arch Linux operating system for ARM processors. The development of the OS was born from the combination of the development teams of PlugApps and ArchMobile.
Alarm has a rolling-release cycle meaning that packages are updated on daily
basis. To install new software packages you have to go trough the
pacman -Syu and pacman -S package-name cycle. Alarm
is not downloadable via a conventional system image file (*.img) as in other OS
distributions but there is released
on a weekly basis a snapshot of the root filesystem via a compressed
*.tar.gz file.
The base alarm system is a striped down version supplied only with the bare basics without a graphical user interface but with an enabled SSH connection. Your are required to know some basics on how to work with a linux terminal and on how to connect to an remote SSH shell.
Arch Linux ARM repository of the Bobo cluster
Some bits and pieces of the customized software for Bobo are available on github. In particular we offer a lightweight pacman wrapper script called pacbobo to allow the installation of customized software on the cluster. The additional software packages can be browsed in the unofficial Arch Linux ARM package repository for and the package build files can be found also on github.
The packages are available for both processor architectures (armv6h & armv7h) used by the Raspberry Pi Model B/B+ and the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Any further installable packages can be found package listing page of Arch Linux ARM. General hints about setting up software an configuration can be found on the Wiki page of Arch Linux.
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