Arctic Linux - Alpha 3 SS
First release under the new version scheme: main.bigfix.smallfix plus a stability suffix (U/VS/S/SS, SS = super stable, the top of the scale). This release stabilizes everything since Alpha 2 and closes the release cycle before multilib and Rust work starts on Alpha 4. Development of Alpha 4 might take a couple days.
sha256: a95be074c668ebfd1749b9c191d7a246e63890676c21fb8ad3a6b8457c7af462
Verified this cycle, on a real arctic-install target booted through its own bootloader (not just the sandboxed build host):
- boot to login prompt: ~5.6s, login to shell: ~2s
clangcould not run at all on a freshly installed system - libc++ was never on the dynamic linker's search path. This was masked all cycle by the sandboxed build host's own /etc/ld.so.conf being visible through the bind mount; a real chroot with no host underneath caught it. Every source build (alpm add -s) was broken before this fix.- every fresh btrfs install kernel-panicked (
Attempted to kill init!) - missingrootflags=subvol=@on the kernel cmdline nmtuishipped with a hardcoded build-host path instead of a reallibnewt.sosoname- `wifi-connect" and NetworkManager fighting over the same radio, misreported as no networks in range
- coldplug's progress dots never appeared on the default boot entry (the one everyone actually boots from) because they were gated behind a flag that entry always sets
- two real package-manager conflicts: ninja/btop both vendoring googletest libraries that collided with each other, and every desktop profile colliding with the plain
footterminal package's own default config