System administration
Users and groups
Privilege escalation
Service management
PantherX uses shepherd as the init process, which is a system and service manager for Linux. For maintaining your Arch Linux installation, it is a good idea to learn the basics about it. Interaction with shepherd is done through the herd command.
System maintenance
PantherX comes in two flavours, a rolling release, and LTS (Long Term Support) release. Read more about system maintenance.
Package management
guix
guix is the PantherX package manager: all users are required to become familiar with it before reading any other articles.
Repositories
Mirrors
Booting
Hardware auto-recognition
Microcode
Retaining boot messages
Num Lock activation
Graphical user interface
Display server
Display drivers
Desktop environments
Window managers
Display manager
Power management
ACPI events
CPU frequency scaling
Laptops
Suspend and Hibernate
Sound
Browser plugins
Codecs
Networking
Clock synchronization
DNS security
Setting up a firewall
Resource sharing
Keyboard layouts
Laptop touchpads
TrackPoints
Optimization
Benchmarking
Solid state drives
System service
File index and search
Local mail delivery
Printing
Appearance
Fonts
GTK+ and Qt themes
Console improvements
Tab-completion enhancements
Aliases
Alternative shells
Bash additions
Colored output
Console prompt
Emacs shell
Mouse support
Session management