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EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo Brings Much-Needed Fixes and a Christmas Surprise.
The EndeavourOS team released today a new ISO snapshot of their Arch Linux-based distribution
for the masses, EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo, shipping some much-needed fixes and a little
Christmas surprise.
Coming just two weeks after the major EndeavourOS Atlantis release, the EndeavourOS Atlantis
Neo is here as an interim release that addresses a few issues present in the Atlantis ISO.
For example, EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo improves the Calamares graphical installer, which has
been updated to version 3.2.49, to support encrypted Btrfs installations when selecting
Swap partition and hibernation, as well as to allow users to install EndeavourOS on machines
with less than 2 GB of RAM.
Furthemore, this interim release of EndeavourOS Atlantis ships with power-profiles-daemon
instead of TLP for all your laptop battery power saving needs (it’s even integrated
in the Settings menu of the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktop environments).
Among other changes, it adds a new mechanism to the pacman package manager to prevent installation
failures on slow or bad Internet or mirror connections, adds gnome-power-manager to allow
Budgie desktop users to access the power menu after hibernation/suspend, and removes the
virtualbox-ext-oracle package due to Oracle’s license not allowing it to be redistributed.
As for the Christmas surprise mentioned above, this release adds support two new Community
editions with the Openbox and Qtile window managers, as well as support for installing
EndeavourOS with the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. More details are available on
the release announcement page.
“We possibly cannot express our gratitude for the love and support you have given us
in 2021,” said the devs. “And because we’re in the holiday season, we have added
a little Christmas surprise for you.” If you want to install this Arch Linux-based
rolling release distribution on your personal computer, you can download the new ISO release
by clicking the direct download link below or by visiting the official website. EndeavourOS
Atlantis Neo is powered by the Linux 5.15.8 LTS kernel and Mesa 21.3.1 graphics stack.
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EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo Arrived as a Christmas Present
Let's take a look together what's new in this awesome Arch-based distro.
Just two weeks after the release of EndeavourOS Atlantis, all fans have reason to rejoice
– EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo is here.
If you really want to run Arch Linux but can’t face or fathom the Arch Linux installation,
what can you do? That’s where EndeavourOS comes in. It’s Arch-based distro but it
isn’t Arch Linux.
EndeavourOS is a rolling release Linux distro, continuation of Antergos. The one which the
developers stopped working on in May 2019, due to lack of time on the part of the volunteer
developers. EndeavourOS uses the well-known Calamares installer and might be classified
as a beginner friendly desktop variant of Arch Linux.
And now, only two weeks after the release of its latest stable release EndeavourOS Atlantis,
all fans have reason to rejoice, because EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo brings some small but important
improvements.
EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo Highlights
Let’s start with the most important improvement in our opinion. It’s related to Pacman package
manager. In case of a bad or slow internet or mirror connection, now Pacman will not
cease operations, resulting in a failed install.
Instead it will try up to six times whilst fetching packages. For sure, this will reduce
ending up with a failed install quite significantly.
On the desktop side, there’s some improvements too. If you use the Budgie desktop, until
now the user not being able to access the power menu after hibernation and suspend.
Now that’s fixed. Moreover, Calamares installer now allows installs on systems with less than
2 GB of RAM.
Under the hood, encrypted installations with Btrfs now works choosing SWAP partition and
hibernation. In addition, power-profiles-daemon in EndeavourOS Atlantis has replaced TLP for
a better hardware compatibility, resulting in lean and minimal power savings by default.
For GNOME and Plasma users, the power-profile-daemon will be integrated in the settings menu of
the desktop environment.
Last but not least, we can’t fail to mention that the EndeavourOS devs have prepared a
Christmas present for us in the form of 3 recently introduces desktop environments.
EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo is our first interim release in our new release model and because
we’re in the holiday season, we have added a little Christmas surprise for you.
THE ENDEAVOUROS TEAM LXDE has been added as an option to the desktop
environments option menu and will be installed with a basic vanilla setup. Openbox has been
added too to EndeavourOS community editions with a basic and slightly themed setup. And
finally, Qtile tiling window manager has been added also to give you a kickstart with the
window manager.
Download If you want a fresh EndeavourOS install, you
can get your copy from the project’s download page and create a bootable USB flash drive.
If you are already running EndeavourOS, there is no need to reinstall. Just open the “UpdateInTerminal”
app from the menu. You would get all the latest packages and updates.
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