{"id":19428,"date":"2026-11-13T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19428"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:15:58","slug":"manjaro-linux-moves-toward-independent-community-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/manjaro-linux-moves-toward-independent-community-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Manjaro Linux Moves Toward Independent Community Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manjaro is an interesting project in that it’s built on Arch, but it holds back packages for longer testing to add stability for enterprise use, not that mainline Arch has many issues these days. I was running it on my old Chromebook after mainline Arch had a dracut kernel bug with eMMC drives, which I could have fixed but decided to try another distro, settling on Manjaro<\/a>. It was working fine, but after switching to XLibre and the early versions of SonicDE I had an issue and reverted back to EndeavorOS, basically stock Arch. Consequently, SonicDE is the fork of KDE desktop environment adding back in X11 support while removing Wayland since KDE has gone Wayland only, and is now much more polished as I run it on all our computers. Back to Manjaro, it’s now under a new non-profit with a new board, but I’d be hesitant to run it now because of their location in Germany and how Germany has cracked down on conservatives protesting immigration and its impact on quality of life with Germans being victimized and raped by immigrants… And with the world moving towards digital ID through the con of protecting children and age verification, the project would be too easy to subvert, though they could prove me wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/manjaro-linux-moves-toward-independent-community-governance\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Manjaro developers establish a German nonprofit association following months of governance disputes and concerns over project leadership.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Bobby Borisov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Arch-based Manjaro Linux has announced<\/a> that Manjaro Project e.V. is now officially registered as a non-profit in Germany and is therefore a legally separate entity from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt is my great honor \u2014 and my equally great pleasure \u2014 to announce to you that the Manjaro Project e.V.<\/strong> is now an officially registered and fully legal non-profit organization in Germany, completely independent from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co KG company.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The announcement is a significant step in the distribution\u2019s ongoing restructure, coming after months of internal wrangling over who was in charge of the project, who had access to the infrastructure and who didn\u2019t, and the relationship between the dev team and the commercial company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new association has seven founding members: Dennis ten Hoove, Frank Vandermeiren, Jonas Strassel, Mark Wagie, Roman Gilg, Simon B\u00fceler and Stefano Capitani. They constitute the initial General Assembly (which may, of course, later admit further members and allow for the inclusion of further members as supporting members).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The restructuring goes back to March, when the Manjaro developers released the Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto<\/a>, which was a very public critique of the way Manjaro was being run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document claims that decision-making has effectively become the sole domain of the project founder, Philip M\u00fcller, with the other developers having very limited access to the infrastructure. There\u2019s also a concern about the drop in participation, the persistent technical issues, and the continued prioritization of commercial interests over the actual development of the distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the proposed changes was to separate the community project from Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG and place its governance under an independent non-profit association. The manifesto proposed the transfer of all project infrastructure, domains, repositories and community funds to the new organization, together with arrangements for the use of the Manjaro trademark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The contributors were warning that they might well consider forking the distro if the talks didn\u2019t go their way. M\u00fcller then indicated that he\u2019d be happy to talk about the proposed structure once the non-profit was in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The association is now formally registered, and so one of the key aims of the manifesto has been realized. The announcement does not state whether the proposed transfers of the trademarks and other assets have in fact taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most important point is the actual evolution of the distribution. The most recent testing and stable updates were kicked off by the Manjaro team themselves, without any oversight from M\u00fcller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This points to the developers having already started to operate on their own in an area which was previously the preserve of the project\u2019s founder. They\u2019re also in the process of optimizing their dev infrastructure, in part as a response to the continued automated bot attacks on the existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Manjaro users, it\u2019s worth noting that this change doesn\u2019t amount to a new distribution release, doesn\u2019t in any way alter the Arch Linux base that Manjaro is built on, and doesn\u2019t require any action on the part of the user. It\u2019s simply a change of who runs the project, who makes the development decisions, and who controls the infrastructure that the distribution runs on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manjaro is an interesting project in that it’s built on Arch, but it holds back packages for longer testing to add stability for enterprise use, not that mainline Arch has many issues these days. I was running it on my old Chromebook after mainline Arch had a dracut kernel bug with eMMC drives, which I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19432,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions\/19432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}