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.) are transferred to technologies . Changed the design of the screen saver. The user menu has been reorganized, in which a button for switching to sleep mode has appeared.
- Simplified navigation in the settings section.
- At the initial setup stage, the ability to enable the parental control system has been added, which allows you to restrict user access to certain applications.
- OVF imaging has begun for running in virtual environments running VirtualBox or VMWare Player.
- The Linux 5.4 kernel is involved. Updated system environment: systemd 244, PulseAudio 13, Mesa 19.3.3, NVIDIA driver 440.64, VirtualBox Guest Utils 6.1.4, GRUB 2.04.
Source: opennet.ru