Software:EndeavourOS

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EndeavourOS
EndeavourOS Mercury Neo with KDE Plasma 6
DeveloperBryan Poerwoatmodjo, Fernando Omiechuk Frozi, Johannes Kamprad, Manuel
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen-source
Initial releaseEndeavourOS 19.6 / 15 July 2019 (6 years ago) (2019-07-15)
|Final release|Latest release}}EndeavourOS Mercury Neo (ISO file)[1] / 23 March 2025 (10 months ago) (2025-03-23)
Marketing targetPersonal computers
Update methodRolling release (Pacman)
Package managerPacman, Yay
Platforms
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux kernel)
Default user interface
Preceded byAntergos
Official websiteendeavouros.com

EndeavourOS is an Arch Linux-based Linux distribution. EndeavourOS began as a successor to Antergos, a discontinued distribution also based on Arch Linux.[2][3] It uses the same rolling release schedule as Arch Linux, but periodically releases updated installation media (ISO files). As of March 23, 2025, the most recent release is "Endeavour Mercury Neo".[1]

History

EndeavourOS began as a continuation of the Antergos Linux distribution, a distribution itself based on Arch Linux, a general-purpose Linux distribution. In May 2019, Antergos' developers abruptly announced that development on the project would cease;[4] a moderator of Antergos' forums, Bryan Poerwoatmodjo, discussed the idea of maintaining the community on a new forum.[5] The idea received support from within the community, and within a day other Antergos moderators joined the project. Development on EndeavourOS quickly began, with the team planning to create a distribution that would be close to Arch Linux with the convenience of a GUI installer, while leaving GUI Pacman wrappers such as Pamac from the out-of-box installation. The first release was in July 2019.[6]

On September 11, 2019, EndeavourOS announced that they will release an online magazine, called Discovery, to give their users some background information on Arch commands and to inform them on new packages to explore. The magazine was launched in November 2019.[7] It was later discontinued in April 2021 due to a lack of writers.[8]

EndeavourOS used to offer "community editions" providing the window managers QTile, BSPWM, Openbox and the EndeavourOS exclusive Worm, as well as the Sway Wayland compositor. These were discontinued starting with the "Galileo" release due to a lack of maintainers and were officially removed with the release of the Galileo ISO on November 20, 2023.[9]

Installation

EndeavourOS uses the Calamares system installer. While EndeavourOS was originally planned to ship with Cnchi, the net-installer used by Antergos, technical difficulties resulted in the adoption of an offline installer based on Portergos, a Linux distribution also based on Antergos, as a stop-gap until the issues could be resolved later in development.[10] After the official launch of the distribution, the EndeavourOS team began to develop a Calamares net-installer, which was expected to release in November 2019,[11] but was delayed to December.[12] The net-installer offers multiple desktop environments, window managers, driver and firmware packages, and kernels during the installation process. The net-installer also allows the user to perform an offline install with the default KDE Plasma[1] (Xfce was the former default)[9] desktop themed with EndeavourOS branding.[13]

EndeavourOS features a graphical installer, unlike the distribution it is based on, Arch Linux, where installation is typically performed manually through the command-line tool pacstrap. As such, EndeavourOS is typically marketed as a beginner-friendly alternative to Arch Linux. As the distribution is based on Arch Linux, it provides most upstream features as-is.

EndeavourOS provides access to the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of unofficial community-maintained source packages shipped by Arch Linux, by default through the yay package manager.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bryanpwo (10 February 2025). "Mercury Neo with Linux 6.13.7 and Arch mirror ranking bug fix." (in en-US). https://endeavouros.com/news/mercury-neo-with-linux-6-13-7-and-arch-mirror-ranking-bug-fix/. 
  2. ↑ Evangelho, Jason. "New Arch Linux-Based Endeavour OS Launches To Keep Spirit Of Antergos Alive" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/07/16/new-arch-based-endeavour-os-launches-to-keep-spirit-of-antergos-linux-alive/. 
  3. ↑ "DistroWatch.com: EndeavourOS". 2024-06-30. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=endeavour. 
  4. ↑ Falgout, Dustin; Filgueira, Alexandre; Castells, Gustau (2019-05-21). "Antergos Linux Project Ends". https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/. 
  5. ↑ "Antergos is going to end." (in en-US). Antergos Community Forum. 2019-05-21. https://forum.antergos.com/topic/11766/antergos-is-going-to-end/12. 
  6. ↑ Bryanpwo (23 June 2019). "Welcome to EndeavourOS" (in en-US). https://endeavouros.com/uncategorized/welcome-to-endeavouros/. 
  7. ↑ Bryanpwo (11 September 2019). "Get ready for the next level". https://endeavouros.com/news/get-ready-for-the-next-level/. 
  8. ↑ Bryanpwo (17 April 2021). "Our April release is available". https://endeavouros.com/news/our-april-release-is-available/. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Bryanpwo (2023-10-10). "Our Galileo release is delayed but here are the main changes you can expect" (in en-US). https://endeavouros.com/news/our-galileo-release-is-delayed-but-here-are-the-main-changes-you-can-expect/. 
  10. ↑ Bryanpwo (3 June 2019). "What to expect on the first release". https://endeavouros.com/what-to-expect-on-the-first-release/. "As you know Cnchi has caused serious problems to be working outside the Antergos eco system and it needs a complete rewrite to work." 
  11. ↑ Bryanpwo (1 November 2019). "Net-installer on hold". https://endeavouros.com/news/net-installer-on-hold. 
  12. ↑ Bryanpwo (23 December 2019). "Liftoff for the net-installer!". https://endeavouros.com/news/liftoff-for-the-net-installer. 
  13. ↑ "About". https://calamares.io/about/. 
  14. ↑ Bryanpwo (9 March 2021). "yay – an AUR Helper Written in Go". https://discovery.endeavouros.com/aur/yay-an-aur-helper-written-in-go/2021/03/. 



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