The release of the EndeavorOS 21.4 βAtlantisβ project has been published, which replaced the Antergos distribution, the development of which was discontinued in May 2019 due to the lack of free time for the remaining maintainers to maintain the project at the proper level. The size of the installation image is 1.9 GB (x86_64, the assembly for ARM is being developed separately).
Endeavor OS allows the user to easily install Arch Linux with the necessary desktop in the form in which it is conceived in its regular filling, offered by the developers of the selected desktop, without additional pre-installed programs. The distribution offers a simple installer to install a basic Arch Linux environment with a default Xfce desktop and the ability to install from the repository one of the typical desktops based on Mate, LXQt, Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, GNOME, Budgie, as well as i3 tile window managers, BSPWM and Sway. Work is underway to add support for Qtile and Openbox window managers, UKUI, LXDE and Deepin desktops. Also, one of the developers of the project is developing its own window manager Worm.
In the new release:
- The Calamares installer has been updated to version 3.2.47. Improved the ability to send logs in case of installation failure. Show more detailed information about currently installed packages. The ability to install Xfce and i3 at the same time has been returned. The NVIDIA proprietary driver installed by default includes the nvidia-drm module, which uses the KMS (Direct Rendering Manager Kernel Modesetting) DRM kernel subsystem. The Btrfs file system uses zstd compression.
- Updated software versions, including Linux kernel 5.15.5, Firefox 94.0.2, Mesa 21.2.5, nvidia-dkms 495.44.
- Added additional checks to rule out boot issues after updating NVIDIA drivers and the Linux kernel.
- A new button has been added to the login welcome screen with information about the installed desktop environment.
- By default, the eos-apps-info package has been added and the range of programs about which information is available in eos-apps-info-helper has been expanded.
- Added an option to paccache-service-manager to remove the cache of remote packages.
- eos-update-notifier has improved interface for scheduling update checks.
- Returned OS prober installation to improve performance when multiple operating systems are installed.
- The ISO image provides the ability to define your own bash commands through the user_commands.bash file to execute after installation.
- The ISO-image implements the "hotfix" function, which allows you to distribute patches without updating the iso-image (the Welcome application checks for hotfixes and downloads them before running the installer).
- The ly DM display manager is used with the Sway window manager.
- Pipewire Media Server is enabled by default.
Source: opennet.ru