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Get ARXOS 0.0.1

Two editions, one system, byte for byte. Scout travels light and pulls the arsenal on demand; Arsenal ships the full 2840-tool armory offline. Live desktop + graphical installer, x86_64.

ARXOS Scout · arxos-0.0.1-scout-x86_64.iso

~5.5 GB · minimal, core tools only · x86_64 · UEFI + BIOS · full 2840-tool arsenal via the Weapons menu on demand

ARXOS Arsenal · arxos-0.0.1-arsenal-x86_64.iso

~30 GB · full 2860-tool armory preloaded, nothing to fetch · x86_64 · UEFI + BIOS

Downloads aren't live yet, they land soon on Cloudflare R2 with an Internet Archive mirror for permanence. Every build comes straight from ARXOS's own image pipeline.

Verify

Always check the ISO before flashing.

# Linux / macOS sha256sum arxos-0.0.1-scout-x86_64.iso sha512sum arxos-0.0.1-scout-x86_64.iso # Windows (PowerShell) certutil -hashfile arxos-0.0.1-scout-x86_64.iso SHA256

Write it to a USB

Any of these work. Use an 8 GB+ stick for Scout, 32 GB+ for Arsenal. Writing erases the drive, so pick the right device.

Linux / macOS · dd

Built in, nothing to install. Replace sdX with your drive (check with lsblk).

sudo dd if=arxos-0.0.1-scout-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync

Windows · Rufus

Free, from rufus.ie. Select the ISO, GPT + UEFI (or MBR + BIOS), and "DD Image" mode if it asks.

Any OS · balenaEtcher

Cross-platform GUI that flashes and then validates. From balena.io/etcher. Also try USBImager.

Any OS · Ventoy

Set up a Ventoy USB once, then just drop the ISO on it and boot, no reflashing, and keep several ISOs on one stick.

Linux GUI · GNOME Disks

Open the drive, menu → Restore Disk Image, choose the ISO. KDE users: use ISO Image Writer.

Verify after writing

Boot it, or reread the device and diff the SHA-256 against the ISO to confirm a clean write.

Boot in a VM

ARXOS detects the hypervisor on login and auto-resizes the display.

QEMU / KVM

4 GB+ RAM, UEFI (OVMF) or BIOS, virtio-gpu + SPICE for auto-resize.

-enable-kvm -m 4G -cdrom arxos-0.0.1-scout-x86_64.iso

VirtualBox

Arch Linux (64-bit), EFI on, 4 GB+ RAM, VMSVGA display. Guest tools ship in the ISO.

VMware

Other Linux 6.x 64-bit, 4 GB+ RAM. open-vm-tools is preinstalled for resize + clipboard.

Requirements & recommended specs

Measured on the reference build: the desktop sits at ~1.9 GB RAM on 2 vCPUs (~230 processes), so ARXOS runs light. Minimum is what we tested; recommended is for comfortable real work, tools, browsers and VMs at once.

CPU

64-bit x86-64-v3 (Haswell / Zen or newer). Min: 2 cores (tested on 2 vCPU). Recommended: 4+ cores for cracking, scanning and compiling.

RAM

Desktop uses ~1.9 GB. Min: 4 GB. Recommended: 8 GB (16 GB if you run VMs + heavy tooling). The live USB runs from RAM.

Disk

Min: ~25 GB for Scout, ~120 GB for Arsenal. Recommended: an SSD, plus headroom for the arsenal you pull on demand. UEFI or legacy BIOS.

Verified on

QEMU/KVM (UEFI + BIOS) at 4 GB / 2 vCPU. Ships guest tools for VirtualBox + VMware; runs on bare-metal x86-64.

Sweet spot: a 4-core, 8 GB, SSD machine. The live USB logs in automatically; if prompted anywhere, user arxos · password root (root is root too).