Welcome to the X11 (X.Org Server) edition of AcreetionOS Linux with the Cinnamon desktop environment. This is the flagship, recommended-for-most-users build of the AcreetionOS Cinnamon family.
Download ISOs: https://acreetionos.org
AcreetionOS Linux is a community-driven, lightweight, and versatile distribution. It is currently based on Arch Linux, with the long-term goal of becoming a parallel* distribution with its own base. The focus is simplicity, ease of use, stability, and up-to-date packages.
Unlike vanilla Arch, AcreetionOS does not consume the upstream Arch repositories at runtime. Instead it ships self-managed repositories hosted at iso.acreetionos.org:8448 ([acreetionOSREPO], [personal]). Curating the package set ourselves is how we offer end users a more stable, predictable experience on top of an Arch-style rolling base.
This edition uses the X.Org Server — the long-standing X Window System (X11) that has been the predominant display system for Linux and Unix since 1984. It is maintained by the X.Org Foundation under the MIT License.
Why pick this edition:
- Maximum compatibility. X11 has decades of application, toolkit, and driver support. If something is going to work on Linux, it works on X11.
- Mature drivers. Uses the standard
xf86-video-*andxf86-input-libinputdriver stack. - Network transparency, accessibility tools, screen sharing, and legacy app support are all well-trodden paths on X11.
Pick a different edition if:
- You want active upstream X server development with newer features like client namespacing — see the XLibre edition.
- You want the modern, secure, per-frame-perfect display protocol — the Wayland edition is reserved for that (not yet released).
- Lightweight Arch-based system with the Cinnamon desktop
- Curated package set from AcreetionOS's own repositories
- Calamares graphical installer
- Both BIOS (SYSLINUX) and UEFI ia32/x64 (GRUB) boot support
- x86_64
- Download the latest ISO from https://acreetionos.org.
- Write it to a USB drive with Etcher, Rufus, or Ventoy.
- Boot from USB and follow the on-screen installation steps.
Ventoy users: you must use GRUB Mode 2. Plain GRUB will not boot the ISO correctly.
This repository is an archiso profile. Build it on an Arch (or AcreetionOS) host with archiso installed:
./build.sh # refreshes work/, runs mkarchiso, cleans up
# or, step by step:
./refresh.sh # rm -rf work/ out/
./mkarchiso.sh # runs mkarchiso with the AcreetionOS label
./umount.sh # if a previous build left bind mounts in work/The resulting ISO is written to ../ISO/. Builds require sudo (loop devices for squashfs). Pushes to the acreetionos branch are also built and published automatically via .gitlab-ci.yml on the project's self-hosted runner.
For deeper architectural notes (profile layout, airootfs/, file-permission gotchas, etc.) see CLAUDE.md in this directory, or ../CLAUDE.md for the workspace-level overview.
Contributions are welcome. See the Contributor Guide. For bug reports and feature requests, open an issue.
The current goal is a stable release by the end of 2026. Track progress on the project roadmap.
- Status: In active development
- License: GPL-3.0
- Maintainers: Darren Clift (@cobra3282000), Natalie Spiva (@spivanatalie64)
* Parallel distribution: a distribution similar to, but with a different goal set than, its upstream.