The release of the EndeavorOS 23.11 βGalileoβ project has been presented, replacing the Antergos distribution, the development of which was discontinued in May 2019 due to the lack of free time among the remaining maintainers to maintain the project at the proper level. The size of the installation image is 2.4 GB (x86_64, an assembly for ARM is being developed separately).
Endeavour OS allows users to install Arch without any complications. Linux with the required desktop as it is designed, with its standard configuration offered by the developers of the chosen desktop, without any additional preinstalled programs. The distribution offers a simple installer for installing the basic Arch environment. Linux With the KDE desktop by default and the option to install one of the standard desktops from the repository, including Mate, LXQt, Cinnamon, Xfce, GNOME, and Budgie, as well as the tiled window managers i3, BSPWM, and Sway. Work is underway to add support for the Qtile and Openbox window managers, as well as the UKUI, LXDE, and Deepin desktops. One of the project's developers is developing their own window manager, Worm.
In the new version:
- The base live environment has been switched from using the Xfce desktop to KDE Plasma. KDE is also now offered by default in offline desktop installations. The change is explained by the desire to simplify development and maintenance. When using the online installation mode, as before, you can select any other user environment to your taste. For those who are accustomed to the Xfce design for KDE, it is possible to select a design theme stylized as Xfce.
- Welcome provides support for KDE and adds a language selection interface.
- The installer has removed the ability to install unofficial editions (Sway, Qtile, BSPWM, Openbox and Worm) supported by the community. To install unofficial editions, you now need to select the βno desktopβ option and install the desired alternative user environment manually.
- By default, new installations enable detection of the local system hostname to simplify printing to a network printer.
- When systemd-boot is selected, partition encryption is enabled using the LUKS2 format and the argon2 algorithm.
- To avoid conflicts between packages, the ability to install more than one user environment from the installer is disabled.
- In the installer, the screen for selecting packages to install has been redesigned.
- Changed EFI partition permissions to avoid dual boot issues with Windows.
- Updated package versions, including kernel Linux 6.6, calamares installer 23.11.1.1, firefox 119.0.1, mesa 23.2.1, xorg-server 21.1.9 and nvidia-dkms 545.29.02.
Source: opennet.ru
