The release of the EndeavorOS 22.12 project is available, 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. One of the developers of the project develops its own window manager Worm.
In the new release:
- Updated package versions, including proposed Linux kernel 6.0.12, Firefox 108.0.1, Mesa 22.3.1, Xorg-Server 21.1.5, nvidia-dkms 525.60.11, Grub 2:2.06.r403.g7259d55ff. The Calamares installer has been updated to release 3.3.0-alpha3.
- A choice of installed bootloaders (systemd-boot or GRUB) is provided, as well as the ability to install a system without a bootloader (use a bootloader already installed by another system).
- Dracut is used to create initramfs images instead of mkinitcpio. Of the advantages of Dracut, the ability to automatically determine the necessary modules and work without separate configuration is noted.
- Added an item to the grub and systemd-boot boot menus to boot Windows if this OS is installed on the computer in parallel.
- Added the ability to create a new disk partition for EFI, instead of using one already created in another OS.
- The GRUB bootloader has submenu support enabled by default.
- Cinnamon uses the Qogir set instead of the adwaita pictograms.
- GNOME uses Gnome-text-editor and Console instead of gedit and gnome-terminal
- The Qogir icon set and arc GTK theme are used in udgie, and Nemo is used instead of the Nautilus file manager.
- Added support for the Pinebook Pro laptop in the ARM architecture build. A linux-eos-arm kernel package has been proposed, including the amdgpu kernel module, which may be required in devices such as the Phytiuim D2000. Added boot images compatible with Raspberry Pi Imager and dd utilities. Improved script to work on server systems without a monitor. Added vulkan-panfrost and vulkan-mesa-layers packages for Odroid N2+ boards.
Source: opennet.ru