Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
ACRECOVERY |
Self-contained ~800 MiB recovery partition provisioned by AcreetionOS — boots even when main /boot dies. The AcreetionOS Recovery Environment |
AUR |
Arch User Repository — community PKGBUILD recipes; installed via yay. Using the AUR with yay |
Calamares |
The graphical installer used by the ISO. |
Cinnamon |
The desktop environment (GTK, Muffin WM, Nemo files). |
initramfs |
Mini-system loaded by GRUB before real root; rebuilt by mkinitcpio. |
LUKS2 |
Standard Linux disk encryption. Disk Encryption on AcreetionOS |
Mesa |
Open-source graphics drivers (OpenGL/Vulkan) for AMD/Intel. |
pacman |
Package manager; flags cheat sheet in Pacman Cheat Sheet. |
pacnew |
Updated config template shipped beside your edited config; merge via |
PipeWire |
Audio/video server replacing PulseAudio/JACK roles. Audio Setup (PipeWire) |
PKGBUILD |
Build recipe describing how a package is compiled/assembled. |
repo-main |
AcreetionOS’s curated package server at iso.acreetionos.org. Repositories & Mirrors |
RSYNC snapshot |
File-based Timeshift snapshot; cheap via hardlinks. Timeshift Snapshots on AcreetionOS |
systemd |
Init/service manager — units, timers, journal. |
Timeshift |
Snapshot/restore tool pre-configured on install. |
Wheel |
Admin group whose members may sudo. |
yay |
Popular AUR helper wrapping pacman syntax. |
zram |
Compressed-RAM swap; faster than disk swap. Performance Tuning |