forge:~$ hello
Arch Linux built for playing games, making games and making music. A kernel compiled for modern CPUs, tuned system settings, sched-ext schedulers, NVIDIA hybrid graphics and realtime audio, delivered through forgeOS's own signed repository on top of plain Arch, with upgrades that are tested before they touch your system.
A kernel built for speed
linux-forgeos is compiled from source for x86-64-v3 with Clang ThinLTO and -O3: 1000 Hz, full preemption, tickless. Kernel patches and tunings from CachyOS.
Tuned system settings
Compressed RAM swap, an I/O scheduler per disk type, ntsync for Wine and Proton, memory and writeback tuning, realtime limits for audio.
Swappable CPU schedulers
sched-ext is built in and the scx schedulers are installed: switch to scx_lavd's gaming mode with one command, and back.
Games
Steam, NVIDIA open drivers with Intel hybrid offload (prime-run), 32-bit Vulkan and Mesa, ready on first boot.
Make games and music
Installer options add a game development toolchain (Vulkan SDK, RenderDoc, Clang, MinGW, Wine) and an audio production set (plugins, yabridge, JACK through PipeWire).
Upgrades tested first
forge system-upgrade snapshots the system, runs the whole upgrade in a trial copy, shows what changed, and only then asks.
Arch underneath
Arch's repositories, pacman, the AUR and the Arch Wiki all apply. forgeOS adds its own signed repository on top.
One desktop, themed as one
Hyprland with login and lock screens, bar, launcher, window overview, calendar and Tweaks, all in the same theme.
The [forgeos] repository
This site is also the package repository forgeOS machines update from. It holds only forgeOS's own packages; everything else comes from Arch's mirrors as usual. Every package and the database are signed.
forgeOS installs are already set up for it. To add it by hand (for example on a forgeOS machine installed before the repository existed), trust the key first:
curl -O https://forgeos.isengard.no/forgeos.gpg
sudo pacman-key --add forgeos.gpg
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 9D7346A872CB485A896D180295033E86C2FEC5B8Then add this to /etc/pacman.conf, above [core], so forgeOS's versions win over a same-named Arch package:
[forgeos]
SigLevel = Required
Server = https://forgeos.isengard.no/$archThe key's fingerprint is 9D73 46A8 72CB 485A 896D 1802 9503 3E86 C2FE C5B8. Compare it with what pacman-key --finger shows before you sign it.
Current packages
| Package | Version | Description | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| forgeos-base | 2026.10.12-48 | Base system dependencies and package configuration for forgeOS | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-calendar | 2026.10.12-48 | forgeOS Calendar: Google Calendar in the forgeOS top bar, read-only (forge calendar) | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-desktop | 2026.10.12-48 | Hyprland desktop dependencies and default user configuration for forgeOS | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-installer | 2026.10.12-48 | Interactive whole-disk Btrfs installer for the forgeOS live medium | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-keyring | 2026.10.12-48 | Public key that signs the forgeOS package repository (forgeos.isengard.no) | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-nvidia | 2026.10.12-48 | Modern NVIDIA graphics, PRIME offload, and Wayland boot configuration for forgeOS | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-release | 2026.10.12-48 | Operating system identity for forgeOS | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-tuning | 2026.10.12-48 | Gaming, audio and I/O tuning for forgeOS, from CachyOS-Settings | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-tweaks | 2026.10.12-48 | forgeOS Tweaks: theme colors, fonts and sizes for the forgeOS desktop (forge tweaks) | 2026-10-27 |
| forgeos-upgrade | 2026.10.12-48 | Btrfs snapshot and isolated trial upgrade workflow for forgeOS | 2026-10-27 |
| linux-forgeos | 7.2.9-2 | The Linux EEVDF + LTO + AutoFDO + Propeller Cachy Sauce Kernel by CachyOS with other patches and improvements. kernel and modules | 2026-10-13 |
| linux-forgeos-headers | 7.2.9-2 | Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux EEVDF + LTO + AutoFDO + Propeller Cachy Sauce Kernel by CachyOS with other patches and improvements. kernel | 2026-10-13 |
| linux-forgeos-nvidia-open | 7.2.9-2 | nvidia open modules of 615.78.08 driver for the linux-forgeos kernel | 2026-10-13 |
Older versions, signatures and the database are in x86_64/; source packages are in sources/.