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It has been a (lazy) month since the latest release - and here we are with the new 24.04 release! And I a got some new cool stuff for you, so let's get started.

MatterLinux configuration manager

I wrote a new tool, which allow you to install easily install configuration files (a.k.a. dotfiles). You see, I always wanted to ship a customized environment with MatterLinux. The only way to do that was to ship all the packages with a custom default configuration. However there is two problems with this:

  1. It's really hard to find and modify default configuration files for all the packages I want to modify, and some of the packages don't even ship a default configuration.
  2. Some users may prefer the out-of-the-box configurations instead of the custom configurations.

To solve this problem I decided to ship configuration packages. Well the problem with that is I cannot do that with mp, as the most of these programs require configurations to be installed to current user's home directory. Well, instead of expanding mp, I created a new tool: MatterLinux configuration manager or mc.

Yeah I really suck at naming things.

Anyway, mc is now in the desktop repo, to learn more about it, check out this new wiki page. But this brings a new problem to the table. How do I ship different configs? Well, this brings us to the next topic...

Config Hub!

I added a new section to MatterLinux's website, called config hub. It like a list of official configuration packages, that you can install with mc. Currently there is only one config, and it's called "messier87". It's an i3 window manager configuration, but I plan to add more to the list.

Also if you are good at ricing, consider creating your own configurations and create a pull request to add them to the cofig hub.

Other stuff

  • Since last month I added 50 more packages to the desktop repo, mostly python packages which are were required for polybar.
  • I added colors to xcfg. With the new xcfg 24.07, you should get a better visual experience.
  • Updated kernel to 6.7

What's next?

I talked about a huge change to he one of the core system components last time. Well, that change is pretty much cancelled. So instead I might (maybe, IDK) work on the installer. Or I may work package other configurations for the config hub. And, yeah, I will also expand the repos, adding more desktop environment stuff.

So that will be it for now. See you in the next post!