📰 News & Updates

Official Release: Helwan Linux Edu XFCE4 v1.0

Date: October 1, 2025

We are excited to introduce the first Educational Edition of Helwan Linux! This release is designed to provide students, teachers, and knowledge seekers with a lightweight, stable, and powerful learning environment built on the strength of Arch Linux. Stay tuned — download links will be available tonight!

Coming Soon: Helwan Linux Dev Cinnamon v1.0

Date: October 1, 2025

We are excited to announce the upcoming release of Helwan Linux Dev Cinnamon! This version brings improved automatic detection of Android devices in Nemo, updates and enhancements to core Helwan Linux packages, and a more stable and better performing user experience. The release will be finalized soon — stay tuned!

📢 Release Announcement – Helwan Linux Stable v1.1

Date: September 4, 2025

We are excited to announce the release of Helwan Linux Stable v1.1, an update to Stable v1.0 with important security, stability, and performance improvements.

🆕 Introduced hpm (Helwan Package Manager), a smart package management tool.
📦 Updated core applications to their latest stable versions.
🔒 Patched multiple security vulnerabilities.
🛠️ Fixed bugs and improved features across several programs.
⚙️ Upgraded the Linux kernel for better hardware support and performance.

📢 Helwan Linux 1.0 Stable Released!

We are proud to announce the official release of Helwan Linux 1.0 Stable, the first unified and stable version of our Arch-based distribution. This release consolidates all previous experimental branches such as Al-Amal and Momo into a single, polished, and high-quality user experience.

This version includes numerous enhancements and new features, including:

Improved user experience with added right-click menu options to show detailed file information such as line counts.
A new suite of script collections for programming languages and Office file formats to boost productivity.
A rich set of in-house developed tools to enhance system control and usability, including:

hel-netfix: Graphical network and system repair tool
hel-tutorial: Interactive Linux tutorials for beginners
hel-welcome-app: First-time user guide and tips
hel-insight: View and analyze statistics from CSV and Excel files
hel-ai-gate: Lightweight AI assistant bridge
hel-markdown: Simple markdown editor for documentation
hel-process: GUI task and process manager
hel-usb-writer: Tool to burn ISO images to USB drives
hel-blocks: Simple Tetris game
helfetch-ng: Enhanced system info fetch tool
hel-store: Minimal GUI app store
hel-terminal: Customizable terminal emulator (demo version)
helufw: GUI firewall configuration tool
hel-sec-audit: Quick system security scan
hel-web-server: Local dev server tool with GUI
hel-builder: Tool to create and edit PKGBUILD files
hel-text-editor: Lightweight code and text editor
hel-diagram: Diagram creation tool for developers

Thank you for your continued support! Stay tuned for more updates and new features.

🚀 Introducing hpm — Helwan Package Manager

We are excited to announce the release of hpm, a user-friendly package manager frontend for Helwan Linux and Arch-based distributions. hpm simplifies package management with clear and intuitive commands while keeping the full power of pacman.

Key Features:

Easy commands: install, remove, upgrade, refresh, search, info, list, clean, orphans, aur, doctor, history.
Supports AUR and local package installation.
Orphan package management and cache cleaning.
Full system health check (doctor).
Command history tracking.
Shell auto-completion and dry-run mode (--dry-run).

Installation:

From Helwan Linux official repositories:

sudo pacman -S hpm

From AUR using an AUR helper (yay or paru):

yay -S hpm
# or
paru -S hpm

The hpm command will be available globally in your terminal. Try it and provide feedback to help us improve!

Last updated: 04 09 2025