Getting Started

minimum hardware requirements

Operating System development and testing is a resource intensive process. We recommend doing this on computers with atleast the following specifications:

• A 4C, 8T CPU, with each core running at 3.5 Ghz and above.
  1. Intel CPUs - 8th Gen core-i5 and above recommended
  2. AMD CPUs - Zen 2 3000 series (AMD Ryzen 5 and above recommended)
• 8 GB of RAM and above. We recommend setting up SWAP space for 8GB. We also recommend dual-channel memory if possible on your system. Overclock if possible.
• Proper cooling for the CPU. Liquid cooling if possible or a good air-cooler. Stock coolers are discouraged.
• Alot of disk space. Atleast 50GB.

To start with development of TCET Linux, you need to have the following on your computer:

• Arch Linux or it's derivative distribution that contain the official Arch repositories and use the EXT4 filesystem - TCET Linux, ALG, EndeavourOS, ArcoLinux are recommended options. (Manjaro and Garuda are discouraged)
• Essential Packages - archiso, base-devel, git, pacman-contrib
• Properly configured Git version control system

Local Setup

Install packages

Install required packages:

sudo pacman -Sy archiso git base-devel pacman-contrib

Clone repositories

Clone the following repositories:

• TCET Linux ISO Profile:

  git clone https://github.com/tcet-opensource/tcet-linux.git

• TCET Linux Settings

  git clone https://github.com/tcet-opensource/tcet-linux-settings.git

• Package Repository

  git clone https://github.com/tcet-opensource/tcet-linux-applications.git

• PKGBUILDs

  git clone https://github.com/tcet-opensource/tcet-linux-pkgbuild.git

• Installer Config

  git clone https://github.com/tcet-opensource/tcet-linux-installer-config.git

Setup alias for resuable command

1. Open your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc depeding on your shell. Enter the following alias into this file.

alias makeiso="sudo mkarchiso -v ."

2. Then evaluate your shell config.

source ~/.bashrc

or

source ~/.zshrc