Manjaro Linux Cinnamon Community Edition

Manjaro Linux Cinnamon Community Edition is an open source operating system based on the powerful and flexible Arch Linux distribution and built around the Cinnamon desktop environment.

Can be downloaded as Live DVDs for the mainstream architectures

The Cinnamon edition of Manjaro Linux can be downloaded as a Live DVD ISO image for 64-bit (x86_64) computers. The ISO image has approximately 2GB in size and must be written to either a DVD disc or a USB flash driver in order to boot it from the BIOS of a PC.

Includes standard Manjaro boot options

From the boot menu, the user will be able to start the live environment with default boot options or with non-free drivers, boot an existing operating system from the first disk drive, view detailed hardware information, as well as to perform a memory test.

Modern and fast graphical session powered by Cinnamon

As you might know, Cinnamon is a modern desktop environment for Linux distributions, developed and distributed by the team behind the famous Linux Mint operating system. In this distro, it is comprised of a bottom panel from where users can easily and quickly find and launch applications, as well as to interact with them.

Includes a standard set of open source applications

No surprises here, as the distribution includes a standard set of open source applications, pretty much the same as on other Manjaro editions. Among some of the most important ones, we can mention Mozilla Firefox, HexChat, SciTE, LibreOffice, Brasero, VLC Media Player and Viewnior.

Bottom line

Summing up, the Cinnamon flavor of Manjaro is here to give users a stable, reliable, modern and fast operating system. Keep in mind that just like Arch Linux, Manjaro is a rolling release, which means that users don't need to download a new ISO image to upgrade the system each time a new release is announced.

What is new in this release:

• Highlights:
• Kernel Linux 4.4
• Cinnamon 3.0.1
• Nemo 3.0.0
• Firefox 46.0.1
• Thunderbird 45.1.0
• Libreoffice-still 5.0.6
• Gimp 2.8.16
• Pragha music player
• VLC media player
• Manjaro Printer
• Hexchat
• Pidgin Instant Messenger
• gtk- and Cinnamon-themes Vertex Maia and Vertex Maia Square
• Utilities:
• Manjaro Welcome
• Manjaro User Guide
• Installers Calamares 2.2.2, Thus and CLI
• Manjaro Settings Manager
• Pamac
• Yaourt
• Isousb
• Gparted
• Baobab Disk usage analyzer

What is new in version 16.02 / 16.06 RC:

• In addition to the full edition with office suite, graphics software and mailclient included, Manjaro Cinnamon 16.02 is also available as a minimal-ISO of 1GB download size, with users in mind who prefer to setup their own set of software.
• Recent development at Manjaro Linux is taking the rolling release model a step further by now delivering all desktop settings via packages. Like that users will have the option to update to the latest stage of development, even in regards of styling and desktop configuration, at any time if they wish - a feature that has often been requested.
• This edition comes with the new gtk-themes Vertex Maia and Vertex Maia Square, developed by the community to perfectly match the Maia icon theme.
• highlights:
• Kernel Linux 4.1
• Cinnamon 2.8.6
• Nemo 2.8.6
• Firefox 44
• Thunderbird 38.6
• Libre Office Suite 5.1
• Gimp 2.8.16
• Pragha music player
• VLC media player
• Manjaro Printer
• Hexchat
• Pidgin Instant Messenger
• utilities:
• Manjaro Welcome
• Manjaro User Guide
• Installers Calamares, Thus and CLI
• Manjaro Settings Manager
• Pamac
• Yaourt
• Isousb
• Gparted
• Baobab Disk usage analyzer

What is new in version 15.09 / 15.12 Pre2:

• Maia theme
• 4.1 LTS kernel
• Plymouth
• Libreoffice 5.0
• Latest Manjaro tools

What is new in version 0.8.13 / 0.9.0 Pre1:

• After another two weeks of development we are proud to present to you our second preview of our next stable release, Manjaro 0.8.13. This time we ship XFCE 4.12 tweaked and patched to have the best XFCE experience possible, Plasma 5.2.2, KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 and latest KDE Apps 15.04!
• New in XFCE:
• Thunar file manager finally supports tabs and other cool features like inverting the selection, improves on location handling and the shortcuts side pane. On the panel we have now a popup calendar and support for timezones. The settings area has improved display settings with the ability to clone displays via the GUI and other basic monitor management options. Last but not least, the window manager has smart placement optimizations for determining the best area to place a new window where it's least covered on the screen. It also now supports alinging windows next to each other rather than using random gaps.
• New in KDE:
• With this new release of Plasma 5 providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Changes under the hood of KDE include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. Plasma is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5. Plasma 5.2 introduces a new major version of KDE's workspace offering. The Manjaro Art Team has forked the new KDE Breeze set and named it Maia to follow in line with the rest of our visually appealing desktops, this artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability. Most of the known errors within KDE5 are now fixed. Post those, we should still take a look at ...
• Changes in Thus:
• We worked also hard to improve our graphical installer Thus and our system tools to make the installation and usage of Manjaro as easy and smooth as possible. With this install medias we now support Manjaro to be installed on MMC/SD-Cards aswell. This will some of you to install our distribution to smaller devices without hard drives.
• Show root StateBox, refractor, move some comments to docstrings
• Fixes for gummiboot and luks
• Clean and "pepify" bootloader.py
• Remove debug output line in chroot.py, clean up a little
• Some cleanup of process.py
• Cleaned advanced partitioning mountpoints check code
• Ignore some devices in partition-module (propers mmc support)
• Simplify creating directories
• Use platform.machine instead of os.uname to get architecture
• Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d if necessary before writing the keyboard configuration
• Setting the LANG variable in /etc/environemnt is not needed
• Move console and X11 keyboard configuration closer together
• Services are enabled in buildiso
• Always add "us" as second keyboard language.
• Change advanced partition requirements depending if using gummiboot or grub2
• vmlinuz, initramfs and fallback is provided now directly with thus.conf
• Don't look for internet connection endless if none is available
• Use google.de for ping
• Adjust ping url in misc
• Smaller efi partition
• Don't unmount root (done on final step)
• More logging when unmounting
• Simplify mounting/unmounting code and try to fix unmounting problems
• Each gummiboot entry has its own file, or will only show the last one
• Fix vmlinuz and initramfs strings for Manjaro kernels.
• Efi partition only exist with efi and grub2
• Fix gummiboot automatic partitioning
• Remove hdparm and keyboardctl bits
• Changes from Antergos/Cnchi@aef279f
• We don't support separate /usr by default
• Refractor chroot.py, unmount dirs in reverse, more debug logging
• Bootloader, install grub efi in a chroot
• Mount special dirs at the start of configure_system functions
• Fix mounting special dirs
• Fix bootloader checking logic
• Slice the efi_path correctly
• Remove -verbose flag when installing grub-install
• Use default value when creating last partition with sgdisk
• Remove useless code
• Call grub-install with verbose option, for debugging
• Pass efi path in automatic mode
• Calculate partition sizes using integer divisions
• Use correct device partition number in automatic partitioning
• Round up swap size in automatic installation
• Fix validation in user_info
• Make sure part sizes are ints
• Mount boot (/boot) before efi (/boot/efi) partition
• Don't mount/unmount within mkinitcpio
• Fix grub-install call
• Add efi partition size when calculating root partition size
• Fix some typos in slides
• Add gtk 3.16 compatibility
• Fix bootloader crash
• More efi fixing
• Fix double-installation attempt of bootloader
• Fix broken creation of /home folder for user
• Fix issue with wrong ssd options in /etc/fstab
• Remove pulseaudio-ctl call
• Fix crash when detecting ssd
• Efi partition is /boot/efi
• Add more translation strings
• Fix forward labeling issue
• Fix slide order in check
• Fix translation issues
• Added new slides by David Linares
• LUKS support in advanced mode (manual partitioning)
• Bootloader installation is now optional in all modes
• PEPified code
• Tweaked UI
• Update translations
• Changes in CLI-Installer:
• Adopt syslinux changes
• Adopt initramfs/vmlinuz renaming
• Try to fix pacman configuration
• Add option for x11 keyboard config

What is new in version 0.8.12 / 0.8.13 Pre2 / 0.9.0 Pre1:

• After another two weeks of development we are proud to present to you our second preview of our next stable release, Manjaro 0.8.13. This time we ship XFCE 4.12 tweaked and patched to have the best XFCE experience possible, Plasma 5.2.2, KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 and latest KDE Apps 15.04!
• New in XFCE:
• Thunar file manager finally supports tabs and other cool features like inverting the selection, improves on location handling and the shortcuts side pane. On the panel we have now a popup calendar and support for timezones. The settings area has improved display settings with the ability to clone displays via the GUI and other basic monitor management options. Last but not least, the window manager has smart placement optimizations for determining the best area to place a new window where it's least covered on the screen. It also now supports alinging windows next to each other rather than using random gaps.
• New in KDE:
• With this new release of Plasma 5 providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Changes under the hood of KDE include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. Plasma is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5. Plasma 5.2 introduces a new major version of KDE's workspace offering. The Manjaro Art Team has forked the new KDE Breeze set and named it Maia to follow in line with the rest of our visually appealing desktops, this artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability. Most of the known errors within KDE5 are now fixed. Post those, we should still take a look at ...
• Changes in Thus:
• We worked also hard to improve our graphical installer Thus and our system tools to make the installation and usage of Manjaro as easy and smooth as possible. With this install medias we now support Manjaro to be installed on MMC/SD-Cards aswell. This will some of you to install our distribution to smaller devices without hard drives.
• Show root StateBox, refractor, move some comments to docstrings
• Fixes for gummiboot and luks
• Clean and "pepify" bootloader.py
• Remove debug output line in chroot.py, clean up a little
• Some cleanup of process.py
• Cleaned advanced partitioning mountpoints check code
• Ignore some devices in partition-module (propers mmc support)
• Simplify creating directories
• Use platform.machine instead of os.uname to get architecture
• Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d if necessary before writing the keyboard configuration
• Setting the LANG variable in /etc/environemnt is not needed
• Move console and X11 keyboard configuration closer together
• Services are enabled in buildiso
• Always add "us" as second keyboard language.
• Change advanced partition requirements depending if using gummiboot or grub2
• vmlinuz, initramfs and fallback is provided now directly with thus.conf
• Don't look for internet connection endless if none is available
• Use google.de for ping
• Adjust ping url in misc
• Smaller efi partition
• Don't unmount root (done on final step)
• More logging when unmounting
• Simplify mounting/unmounting code and try to fix unmounting problems
• Each gummiboot entry has its own file, or will only show the last one
• Fix vmlinuz and initramfs strings for Manjaro kernels.
• Efi partition only exist with efi and grub2
• Fix gummiboot automatic partitioning
• Remove hdparm and keyboardctl bits
• Changes from Antergos/Cnchi@aef279f
• We don't support separate /usr by default
• Refractor chroot.py, unmount dirs in reverse, more debug logging
• Bootloader, install grub efi in a chroot
• Mount special dirs at the start of configure_system functions
• Fix mounting special dirs
• Fix bootloader checking logic
• Slice the efi_path correctly
• Remove -verbose flag when installing grub-install
• Use default value when creating last partition with sgdisk
• Remove useless code
• Call grub-install with verbose option, for debugging
• Pass efi path in automatic mode
• Calculate partition sizes using integer divisions
• Use correct device partition number in automatic partitioning
• Round up swap size in automatic installation
• Fix validation in user_info
• Make sure part sizes are ints
• Mount boot (/boot) before efi (/boot/efi) partition
• Don't mount/unmount within mkinitcpio
• Fix grub-install call
• Add efi partition size when calculating root partition size
• Fix some typos in slides
• Add gtk 3.16 compatibility
• Fix bootloader crash
• More efi fixing
• Fix double-installation attempt of bootloader
• Fix broken creation of /home folder for user
• Fix issue with wrong ssd options in /etc/fstab
• Remove pulseaudio-ctl call
• Fix crash when detecting ssd
• Efi partition is /boot/efi
• Add more translation strings
• Fix forward labeling issue
• Fix slide order in check
• Fix translation issues
• Added new slides by David Linares
• LUKS support in advanced mode (manual partitioning)
• Bootloader installation is now optional in all modes
• PEPified code
• Tweaked UI
• Update translations
• Changes in CLI-Installer:
• Adopt syslinux changes
• Adopt initramfs/vmlinuz renaming
• Try to fix pacman configuration
• Add option for x11 keyboard config

What is new in version 0.8.12:

• Some of it's features are:
• Sleak gray graphical layout
• Provides information of Manjaro to new users
• Can allow the user to easily select which Folders he wants in his home directory
• Allows users to select which theme they want for Kwin (KDE)
• Allows users to select which wallpaper they want (KDE/Openbox)
• Allows users to chose where to place your tint2 panel (Openbox)
• Can also allow people to open system settings after they've ran through everything else to set any last minute details
• New features of Pamac 0.9.6:
• Proper AUR support
• Cleanup
• Bugfixes
• New features in Manjaro Settings Manager:
• MHWD support
• added translation support
• translated to: English, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
• New features in MHWD:
• Support for network cards
• New features in Thus - graphical installer:
• code cleanup and restructure
• added home dir to automatic mode
• fixed resizing in language slide
• fixed parted issues in advanced mode
• added a logging message when an unknown exception is thrown in installation_process
• added encfs for home-dir encryption: pam_encfs is needed
• fixed GUID partition table creation in advanced
• fixed UEFI support
• luks and lvm in automatic mode is now enabled
• removed backported chroot code from live-installer (old python2 code)
• modified grub installation
• reordered slides: language > location > check > timezone > keymap > ask > (automatic, alongside, advanced) > user_info > slides
• fixed swap partition detection in advanced mode
• fixed swapoff in advanced mode
• mount source squashfs only when not already mounted
• fixed myhomepath in partition_module
• fixed verbose error messages
• use ‘sudo -E' directly in thus script
• some strings got updated
• keyboard layout generator added
• code optimizations
• advanced mode should detect now all supported filesystems properly
• proper btrfs support
• updated translations

What is new in version 0.8.5.2:

• now we ship with our own dark theming
• you find razor-qt as an alternative desktop
• kdebase-workspace 4.10.2
• linux38 3.8.11-1
• manjaro-settings-manager 0.1.1-1
• mhwd 0.2.7-2
• octopi 0.1.0422-1
• pamac 0.7.3-1
• systemd 202-2
• xorg-server 1.14.1-1

What is new in version 0.8.4:

• New-look desktop environments
• Pamac replaces Kalu, Pacman-Gui and Package Browser
• User-friendly LXDM configuration application - developed by the Manjaro Team - provided to easily customise the login screen and to even login automatically
• Graphical boot screen introduced for installation media
• Default kernel has been upgraded to 3.7 from 3.4 (with improved flash support)
• Special PDF quick-guides have been provided for each official desktop environment
• Additional multimedia support, applications, and access to the AUR have been pre-installed
• Support for installation via USB sticks has been improved (via DD or ImageWriter)
• Partitions can now be accessed without providing a password
• Hibernation function has been enabled