distribution release , aimed at creating an easy-to-use system in which you can quickly select applications to your taste. Applications are distributed as self-contained Flatpak packages. Size boot images ranges from to .
The distribution does not use traditional package managers, instead offering a minimal, read-only, atomically updatable base system built with tools (the system image is atomically updated from a Git-like repository). Identical ideas with Endless OS lately echo the Fedora developers as part of the Silverblue project to create an atomically updatable Fedora Workstation variant.
Endless OS is among the distributions that drive innovation among consumer Linux systems. The desktop environment in Endless OS is based on a heavily redesigned fork of GNOME. At the same time, Endless developers actively participate in the development of upstream projects and share their developments with them. For example, in the GTK+ 3.22 release, about 9.8% of all changes were developers of Endless, and the company that oversees the project, Endless Mobile, is part of GNOME Foundation, along with FSF, Debian, Google, Linux Foundation, Red Hat and SUSE.
In the new release:
- Desktop and distribution components (mutter, gnome-settings-daemon, nautilus, etc.) have been migrated to GNOME 3.32 technologies (the previous version of the desktop forked from GNOME 3.28). The Linux 5.0 kernel is involved. The system environment is synchronized with the Debian 10 "Buster" package base;
- Built-in ability to install isolated containers from Docker Hub and other registries, as well as build images from a Dockerfile. The Podman toolkit is included, providing a Docker-compatible command-line interface for managing sandboxed containers;
- Reduced disk space consumed when installing a package. If earlier the package was first downloaded and then copied to a separate directory, which led to duplication on disk, now the installation is done directly without an additional copying phase. The new mode was developed by Endless in collaboration with Red Hat and transferred to the main staff of Flatpak;
- Ended support for the companion mobile app for Android;
- Provided a visually more consistent design of the boot process, without flickering when switching modes on systems with Intel GPUs;
- Updated support for Wacom pen tablets and added new options for customizing and using them.
Source: opennet.ru