The project created by Brian Manderville and based on Ubuntu, Descent OS, has died. Since it started in 2012, the distro has been evolving, but there is bad news about it, since development has officially stopped, therefore the project is dead. Fans or users of this distro will have to forget about it and start using alternatives, which there are and many ...
For those who do not know Descent OS, it is a derivative of Ubuntu with GNOME 2 designed to be lightweight. The development was quite active and always kept quite up-to-date using the latest version of Ubuntu released by Canonical, however, as has happened with other projects, it has died. Its developer already announced many months ago that it would take a two-year break, but it seems that interest has ceased, as Brian has well reported on his social networks.
But the world is not ending at all, it will be for distros ... In fact Brian works as a developer of another new distribution, arkas os. It is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and built around a modern desktop environment such as Plasma 5 from KDE. Its objective, rather than being a lightweight distro like its predecessor Descent OS, is something else, to offer a platform for graphic artists and storytellers.
Although the appearance is practically the same as in the case of Descent OS, Arkas OS is of course more updated, with a more modern graphical environment and also has new pre-installed packages, among which are some essential for the niche for which it is used. guide, how are the fantastic programs Krita and Scribus, of which we have talked a lot on this website, allowing you to have everything you need to write your fables and make the illustrations professionally.