Announced the launch of the new version of Endless OS 5.0, whose goal is to create a user-friendly system where you can quickly select applications to your liking.
In the new version, in addition to the news and improvements, it is mentioned that automatic updates will be delayed 14 days after the computer "sees" the 5.0.0 update for the first time.
For those who are unaware of Endless OS, you should know that the distribution does not use traditional package managers, but instead offers a minimal atomically updatable read-only base system built with the OSTree toolkit (the system image is atomically updated from a Git-like repository).
Recently, the Fedora developers have tried to iterate on ideas identical to Endless OS as part of the Silverblue project to create an atomically updated version of Fedora Workstation, as have the creators of Vanilla OS, tau-OS, and Pop!_OS. The Endless OS installation and update system is now used in GNOME OS as planned.
Endless OS is among the distros driving innovation among consumer Linux systems. The Endless OS desktop environment is based on a heavily redesigned fork of GNOME. At the same time, Endless developers are actively involved in the development of upstream projects and share their developments with them.
For example, in GTK+ 3.22, about 9,8% of all changes were prepared by Endless developers, and Endless Mobile, which oversees the project, is on the GNOME Foundation's supervisory board, along with FSF. , Debian, Google, Linux Foundation, RedHat and SUSE.
Top New in Endless OS 5.0
In this new version that is presented of Endless OS 5.0, we can find that desktop and distribution components have been converted to GNOME 41 technologies, in addition to the fact that the versions of the system packages have been updated, among other things, new Linux 5.15 kernel versions are proposed, OSTree 2022.1, Flatpak 1.12.4 and Flatpak-Builder 1.2.2.
The bottom taskbar is divided into two separate panels: the upper one with menus, system information and indicators, and the lower one with a list of favorites and running programs.
In addition to this, it has been proposed new interface to switch between virtual desktops (Activities) and view thumbnails of running applications.
Another novelty that stands out in the new version is that it has added a new application control center, in which a new design has been implemented, performance has been optimized, navigation through programs has been simplified. Around 2000 apps are available for installation.
It is also highlighted that added support for using multi-touch gestures on touchpads and touchpads, such as two-finger scrolling, pinch-to-zoom, and three-finger scrolling between virtual screens.
Support for hybrid graphics systems has been improved, defaulting to a low-power integrated GPU, and for graphics and gaming applications, you can switch to the GPU of the discrete graphics card.
Of the other changes that stand out from the new version:
- Added parental controls to the configurator.
- A transition to a graphical session based on the Wayland protocol has been made (an X server based session is optionally available).
- GNOME apps: Archive Manager (File Roller), Calculator, Contacts, Fonts, Records, Shotwell, and Gedit have been ported to Flatpak.
Finally, if you want to know more about it about this new version of the distribution, you can check the details in the following link.
Download and try Endless OS 5.0
For those who are interested in being able to download this new version of the distribution, install it or test it in a virtual machine You can go directly to the official website of the project where you can find the system image in its download section.
The link is this.
You can save the image with the help of Etcher on a USB.
The applications are distributed as separate Flatpak packages. The size of the offered boot images ranges from 3,3 to 17 GB.