The release of the EndeavorOS 22.1 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 1.8 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:
- A choice of display manager to be installed is provided depending on the selected window manager. In addition to the previously offered default universal LightDM + Slickgreeter bundle, Lxdm, ly and GDM are now also selected.
- In the Calamares installer, the desktop environment selection interface is separated from the selection of packages to install.
- Live builds and installs with Xfce use the Qogir icon and cursor set instead of the previously offered Arc set.
- Added a button for custom installation, which allows you to manually enable additional installer modules.
- The modules developed by the project for the Calamares installer β Pacstrap and Cleaner β have been rewritten.
- A button has been added to the installer to control the display of the installation log, and an indicator has been implemented to evaluate the status of the installation in online mode.
- The Live environment has Bluetooth enabled by default, but after installation, Bluetooth remains disabled by default.
- When choosing Btrfs during installation, data compression is now applied to files placed during installation (previously, compression was enabled after installation).
- Enabled dynamic firewalld firewall, which runs as a background process, allowing packet filter rules to be changed dynamically via DBus, without having to reload packet filter rules and without dropping established connections.
- Added a new graphical application EOS-quickstart, which offers an interface for installing the most popular programs that are not included in the basic package.
- The EOS-packagelist utility has been added to replace the EndeavorOS-packages-lists interface used to access lists of packages used in the installer.
- Added Nvidia-inst utility to simplify installation of proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
- Support for mirror ranking has been added to the EndeavorOS-mirrorlist utility to select the closest mirror.
- The Worm window manager, developed by one of the project participants, has been added to the distribution. When developing Worm, the goal was to create a lightweight window manager that would work well with both floating windows and tiled windows, offering window control buttons for minimizing, maximizing, and closing the window in both modes. Worm supports the EWMH and ICCCM specifications, is written in the Nim language and can only work using the X11 protocol (Wayland support is not in the near future).
Source: opennet.ru