The founder of the distribution announced the cessation of development after seven years of work on the project. The reason for stopping the development is cited as the lack of free time among the remaining maintainers to support the distribution at an adequate level. It was decided that it is better to stop work at a stage when the distribution is fully functional and relevant, rather than condemn the user community to gradual stagnation. Such a step will allow interested enthusiasts to use Antergos's developments to create new projects.
In the near future, a final update is planned, which will disable the Antergos-specific repositories. The packages developed by the project will be transferred to AUR. Thus, existing users will not need to migrate to another distribution and will continue to receive updates from the standard Arch Linux repositories and AUR.
At one time, the project continued the development of the Cinnarch distribution after its transition from Cinnamon to GNOME due to the use of part of the word Cinnamon in the name of the distribution. Antergos was built on the package base of Arch Linux and offered a classic user environment in the style of GNOME 2, initially formed using add-ons to GNOME 3, which was later replaced with MATE (later, the possibility of installing Cinnamon was also returned). The goal of the project was to create a more user-friendly and easier-to-use version of Arch Linux, suitable for installation by a broad audience of users.
Burimi: opennet.ru
