It is clear that the comparisons are obnoxious, but doing it with distributions like the protagonist of this article and one of the most popular children of Arch Linux is, in addition, difficult. Manjaro offers three branches (Unstable, Testing and Stable, in addition to Staging Stable), while the "effort" is a bit more faithful to the philosophy of the system on which it is based. In addition, the Manjaro versions are numbered by the date they are released, something that seems to we can no longer say with this other option because today they have launched EndeavorOS 21_04.
At least that's what we read on the new releases page, although the truth is that what we see there is EndeavorOS_Atlantis-21_04. And it is that, as mentioned, have started naming their releases, and EndeavorOS 21_04 has received the name of Atlantis. It also seems that they have decided to stop adding the release date in the new ISOs, and what they will do is add the numbers for the year (2021) and the quarter (04).
“Yes, as you may have noticed from the title, we have started to name our releases and we are more than proud to present our latest, Atlantis. The reason we started naming releases has to do with changing our working method. Our team has grown since the last release and to give each team member time to do their homework, we now freeze ISO development at a certain point and try to avoid confusion by calling it a December release, while the ISO has a November date. in your name. Also, emphasize the fun factor in this project. Like you, we are having fun creating and sharing our work with you. "
EndeavorOS 21_04 Highlights
- Squid 3.2.47-5
- Firefox 94.0.2-2
- Linux kernel 5.15.5
- Table 21.2.5-1
- nvidia-dkms 495.44-6
- Improvements for NVIDIA that come from the kernel.
- The welcome screen has a new button with information about the graphical environment.
- The function grub tools now add information and warnings when necessary about the GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER variable in / etc / default / grub.
- An enhancement in AKM that marks the current running kernel with the symbol.
- Improvements in Calamares, among which is to recover options such as the one that allows you to install XFCE and i3 at the same time.
- Complete list of changes, in this link.
EndeavorOS 21_04, or rather EndeavorOS_Atlantis-21_04, It is now available from this link. Existing users will receive the new packages from the software center or with the command sudo pacman -Syu.
An interesting distro, I use Linux Mint, but anyway, it is a useful distribution