CachyOS Recap 2024
This is a little post about the changes in CachyOS, but also the community in 2024. We had a really great year with you, improved CachyOS together heavily and introduced dozens of new features and fixes. Below you can find a summary of the important changes done at the CachyOS Project.
Team
The CachyOS Team is grown quite a bit in 2024. Following team members joined in 2024:
- Eric Naim (@naim): Kernel contributor, package maintainer, and all-around community superhero.
- Nekoh: Developer and Maintainer of the CachyOS Handheld Edition (rumor has it, they can code with one hand while beating the final boss in a handheld game with the other).
- Stelios Tsampas (@loathingkernel): Developer and Maintainer of CachyOS Wine and Proton (he can fix Wine bugs faster than you can say “Cheers!”).
- Harsh Peshwani (@Soulharsh007): Developer of Cachy-Chroot, Website, and Builder Dashboard
Thanks to all of you joining the CachyOS Team and volunteering the work to this project. We are very proud to have you on our team! <3
Features and Changes
We had in 2024 a really good development track in bringing new features, upstream fixes and bringing improvements to the community. Here is a list of the changes into CachyOS:
Repository
- Added
x86-64-v4support to our repository and installation process - Added Zen 4 (znver4) support to our repository and installation process
- Added support for precompiled NVIDIA Modules
- Higher syncing interval for optimized packages
- Added several new mirrors around the world
- Added CDN’s and World Wide Cache CDN’s for the CachyOS Repository
- Added an unstripped vmlinux of kernels into the repository
- More Profile guided pptimization to more packages
- Kernels are now as default optimized with AutoFDO
Installer
- All filesystems support to refind and encryption (luks2)
- Dropped Offline Installer
- automatic mirror ranking before the installation process
- Reworked netinstall package list
- Added Plymouth support out of the box
- Added bcachefs support
- Added “AI-SDK” Installation type for out of the box CUDA/ROCm support
- Added support for Game Mode (Steam) expierence on handheld devices
- Added T2 MacBook support
- switched to BTRFS as default filesystem
- Rebased on QT6
- Early Microcode loading with the initramfs
- SDDM uses wayland now as default
Misc
CachyOS Hardware Detection (chwd)
- Support for 40xx NVIDIA Cards
- Added handheld configuration and detection
- Added MacBook T2 Chip configuration and detection
- Added network driver detection
- Added
libva-nvidia-driverto the nvidia preset - NVIDIA Open Modules used as default, if supported
- Added AMDGPU GC support for detecting if ROCm is supported
- NVIDIA: Improved Prime profile detection
- Added
--autoconfigureoption to automatically find the best drivers for the hardware - Profiles are now specially designed for PCI Devices
cachyos-settings
- MQ Deadline Scheduler for SSD/SD Cards
- Dropped tuning for watermal values
- Added debuginfod URL to CachyOS user
- Added support for NTSync
- Added topmem tool to show the top 10 memory usage of processes
- Reworked sysctl configuration
- Added zink-run tool to easily run application with zink
- Added game-performance script to easily switch to the performance profile, when starting the game
- Disabled zswap as default
- Added Logo for gdm
- Use syxstemd-resolved as default dns-resolver
- Added support for thp shrinker
cachy-chroot
- Introduced Cachy-Chroot - a tool to easily chroot into the users system
- Added auto-mount via fstab for simplified chrooting (user only selects the wanted disk)
- Added support for LUKS Encryption
- Added CachyOS BTRFS Preset detection and automatic mounting based on preset
Community
Thank you all for using and joining the CachyOS Project! The community has grown a lot in this year. Thanks for all the testing and the contributions! You are all helping us a lot to improve this open source project, while also helping the upstream community to discover bugs fast before they are shipped to a wider range of users.
Stats
Social
- Discord: 4500 Members (We tried to count the memes, but we lost track at 10,000.)
- Reddit: 3100 Members
- Forum: 1500 Members
- Telegram: 800 Members
Traffic
The traffic on our servers has increased a lot in the last year.
Complete year (1.1.2024 - 23.12.2024)
- 1,4 Petabyte (1400 TB) Data served
- 765 Million requests
- 234k unique visitors per month
Last 30 days:
- 250TB Data served per month
- 140 Million requests per month
- 234 thousands unique visitors
ISO Downloads
- 19,000 ISO Downloads per month
Sponsors && Donations
Sponsors
In 2024 we have received new partnerships and help for delivering our repository easily across the world. Thank you all for sponsoring us and helping us to improve CachyOS.
- CDN77 - World Wide Cache CDN
- Cloudflare - Cloudflare Pro for cachyos.org
- Tebi - CDN on 4 different datacenters
- Active Servers - 19% less costs for our buildserver
Donations
Thank you all for donating to us and helping us to pay our infrastructure! We have received in 2024 4500€ in total - this covered mostly our complete server costs the first time!
Greets
As we power down the terminal for a holiday break, we want to say: Thank You! Thank you for being part of this crazy journey. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a wonderfully Happy New Year! May 2025 bring even more awesome features, brilliant code and fewer bugs.
Cheers to another year of CachyOS - let’s make it even better together! Happy holidays and Happy Christmas!
The CachyOS Team