📰 News & Updates

📢 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.

Next major release: Helwan Linux 2.0 – planned for mid-2026 with a structured release cycle.

🚀 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!