About EndeavourOS: Second Most Popular Distro on DistroWatch
Anyone who is a constant follower of the distrowatch website To keep abreast of Linux news related to the releases of each GNU/Linux Distribution around the world, you surely know that since 2018, MX Linux remains the number 1 Linux Distro in the said Ranking. However, it is worth noting that being the most popular in DistroWatch does not mean being the most used. This only means, the one that causes more curiosity for its characteristics and innovations, and its future development among the visitors of said website.
The second and third place from that date (2019) to the year 2020 was occupied by Manjaro and Mint. However, from the year 2021 to the present day, the second place is well earned by the GNU/Linux Distro «EndeavourOS». While the remaining 8 positions in the current Top 10 have been reserved for Manjaro, Mint, Debian, Pop!_OS, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Lite. Therefore, today we will address in depth Endeavor. In such a way, to make it more known among the entire Linuxera Community that reads us.
MX Linux is a stable Debian-based lightweight Linux operating system, with the core components of antiX.
But, before you start reading this post about the GNU/Linux Distro «EndeavourOS», we recommend our previous related post with the MX Linux Distro:
Endeavor: A Distro rolling release based on Arch
What is EndeavourOS?
Exploring and analyzing your Official website, we can describe this great GNU/Linux Distribution «EndeavourOS» as follows:
- It was born at the end of 2019, seeking to be an ideal substitute for the extinct Distro Antergos.
- It is a rolling release GNU/Linux Distribution based on Arch Linux.
- It seeks to offer an Operating System with a simple configuration, a light base and a pre-configured desktop environment ready to use.
- It includes offline and online installation options. For this, your Offline installer, Calamares, uses the XFCE desktop by default. While his online installer can install optional software components, including the most popular desktop environments such as: XFCE, Plasma, GNOME, Mate, Cinnamon, Budgie, LxQt, LxDe, and i3-wm, and many more.
- Thanks to its robust, dynamic and growing Community, community versions of Endeavor with window managers: Sway, Qtile, BSPWM and Openbox. Plus one exclusive to EndeavourOS called Worm, which was created and is maintained by the same Community.
History and development
Amongst the most important historical points of its development are the following:
And for him December 19th 2022, its development team released the version called Cassini Neo. Which was the first version with options that allowed the user to choose three bootloader options, no bootloader, systemd-boot, or Grub. It was also the first version with the Dracut software installed by default instead of mkinitcpio. In addition, to add official support for Pinebook Pro in the ARM ISO.
However, to this day they work in the future version Cassini Nov, which goes for his second development version (Release 2) launched in March 2023. Which, among many new features, includes the following:
- Reorganized and cleaned up the netinstall packages.
- Much cleanup work done on installer squid.
- They can now choose to create a new EFI partition instead of reusing the existing one by using "Replace Partition" or "Install together«.
- Grub's submenu feature it is now enabled by default (only the default entry is visible, additional entries are inside a submenu).
- Includes a fix for slower machines during the installation process, the bug that caused excessive timeouts while compiling kernel images (intrams).
- It includes important updated packages, among which are: Calamares 22.12.3.6-2, Firefox 113.0.2-1, Kernel Linux 6.3.4.arch1-1, Mesa 23.1.1-1, Xorg-Server 21.1.8-1 ( xorg), Nvidia-dkms 530.41.03-1, among many others.
Finally, and finally, it is possible to obtain more information about Endeavor in its official section in GitHub y DistroWatch. And if necessary, it can be tested without being downloaded through the DistroSea website, by clicking on the following link.
Summary
In short, most likely the GNU/Linux Distro «EndeavourOS» continue to stay in second place in the Top of DistroWatch for much longer. Above all, when very soon its developers release the future version of Cassini Nova. Which, in addition to many updated applications, will bring great changes, improvements and innovations, which will continue to attract many users from other GNU/Linux Distributions, thus strengthening its already robust and growing User Community.
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