AcreetionOS Administration Guide

For operators, tinkerers and the professionally curious. User-level tasks live in the Wiki; here we go a level deeper.

Map of the territory

Section You’ll learn

Foundations

How AcreetionOS composes Arch: repos, hooks, packaging

systemd chapters

Units, timers, journal — the service backbone

Network & Security

NetworkManager CLI control, SSH hardening, firewall choices

Storage

fstab discipline, LVM+LUKS, btrfs administration, zram

Boot Chain

GRUB internals, initramfs presets, microcode

Tuning & Recovery

sysctl parameters with evidence, ACRECOVERY partition management

Assumed background

Comfortable in a shell; willing to read man pages (man pacman.conf etc. referenced throughout). Root access via sudo per Users, Groups & Sudo.

The one rule that rules them all

Rolling release discipline: no partial upgrades. Everything else is negotiable craft.

Start wherever your problem lives — each chapter stands alone.