cachyos-desktop-linux-240929.iso

CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations.

CachyOS September 2024 Release

This is our 10th release this year, featuring improvements to performance, faster updates, and other enhancements. The release comes a bit delayed, since the CachyOS Team was at the LPC, and therefore we couldn’t follow our common release cycle.

We have started to optimize more packages with PGO. In the case of LLVM and Clang, we have seen a 10% performance improvement. Additionally, packages like svt-av1, nodejs, and ripgrep got optimized with PGO. We will work further to optimize our packages and improve their performance. Also, we have added cherry-picked patches to glibc and gcc from clearlinux. This provided an additional 1.5% improvement to the gcc compiler.

PGO, sddm-wayland, zlib-ng, inputplumber